Posted by Neredbojias on 05/28/06 09:38

To further the education of mankind, "Chris Tomlinson" <anon@anon.com>
vouchsafed:

>> My 'constructive reply' consists of nothing else than encouraging you
>> to leave the ability to increase the font size alone and try to
>> improve the table layout for variable font sizes. This way, people
>> with poor eye-sight may also use your site...
>
> Thanks JW. In case you miss my other post, I have thought about
> accessibility, and as I said, most new browsers use a
> 'zoom' feature which will allow them to read everything. The
> difference is it also zooms the tables, so the formatting doesn't go
> wrong. However if they just adjust the text size, then the text
> becomes too big for the table.
>
> How is it supposed to be possible to use a table like that at
> www.superhighstreet.com and yet have it viewable in different font
> sizes? I can't see this is doable. :-S

superhighstreet doesn't "zoom the tables"; they are fixed width and the
text flows, filling space vertically with size. Although the markup is
quite archaic, the site works fairly well for a dinosaur. (Opera may
"zoom-and-relign" the basic graphic buffer, but that isn't mainstream
browser behaviour. While a nice feature, it should be coupled with
straight font-resizing also.)

Incidentally, in something like <font size="4">text</font>, the font-size
_is_ relative, just like em units. But that type of markup was deprecated
years ago.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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