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Posted by Travis Newbury on 03/12/07 14:56
On Mar 12, 8:12 am, "Richard Formby" <newsgro...@barefile.com.au>
wrote:
> Travis, I have crook eyesight. So do many people of my vintage. I simply
> cannot see the text on a very large number of sites out there because the
> dresigner has chosen to *suggest* a stupidly small font size. One I simply
> cannot see.
> I will *naturally* mouse-wheel the font to something larger than the
> dresigners stupidly chose.
>
> If said site then falls apart then so be it. I either cannot read it because
> of the stupidly small font size or I cannot read it because it has fallen
> apart. In either case it it not my problem, it is the dresigners. At the
> cost to the dresigners client for I have gone elsewhere to shop.
>
> > may be true, but most people (anecdotal
> > evidence) never touch that setting anyway, so they don't see it fall
> > apart.
>
> Please cite some references to support this. We have disagreed on this
> before but I suggest to you that the people who need to use these settings
> *will* know where they are and *will* use them. That is why they are there.
I do not disagree that people who need these setting will know where
they are, I disagree with the number of people that use them. As for
my evidence, it is anecdotal (http://www.answers.com/topic/anecdotal-
evidence). Evidence I have gathered from my own experience via direct
contact with users. It is not scientific, but I tend to believe my
personal observations.
My observations show that people in general use the default settings
for a browser like I do. And with my default settings in both IE and
FF I have no problem with virtually any website. Therefore, I can
only assume that sites made with a wysiwyg editor are displaying the
site exactly like the designer wanted it to. And if I am seeing it
correctly with the default settings, so is everyone else that uses the
default settings.
Scientific? Nope not by a long shot, but you would be hard pressed to
change my mind. Do you have scientific evidence showing the majority
of users don't use the default settings?
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