Posted by dorayme on 11/14/06 20:46

In article <4ru937FsnsgpU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:

> Anything less than 100% for paragraph text is
> degraded usability. Only designers think otherwise.

Not just (print media) designers. Clients of good wholesome
website makers (like me) who like to have main body text at 100%
quite often think otherwise. There is a simple reason for it.
They (and browser packagers) have set their browsers to read
(more or less comfortably?) the average web page. The average web
page uses less than 100% font-size. So 100% looks suddenly big to
them. To me it looks right and the average wrong. But then, I
have been around here a while, can see further than most and am
tall and athletic and fast - real fast - at the command + key
combo, faster than Bob Munden
(http://www.bob-munden.com/legends.htm) can draw a gun.

But don't get your tie all knotted Bergi, I support you in your
font-size stance. Stances are important. But they are stances,
not reportage of facts. I wish someone else besides me would at
least see this at alt.html. I did notice someone say similar
recently somewhere else, so there are at least two beings in this
universe who see this "arms-race" point.

--
dorayme

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