Posted by windandwaves on 09/23/07 05:39

On Sep 23, 2:17 am, Bergamot <berga...@visi.com> wrote:
> windandwaves wrote:
>
> >> >http://www.winsborough.co.nz/
>
> > I changed all the font-sizes to em.... does it work for you now?
>
> No. Setting body font-size:62.5% than overriding paragraph et al with
> font-size:1.3em is a really stupid practice.
>
> It has a negative effect on those of us who set a minimum font-size in
> our browsers, which, under normal circumstances, makes the web usable
> for deeziner sites that use microfonts (like 62.5%). Your type size is
> now unnecessarily large because it's 1.3em of my minimum size, not the
> tiny 62.5%. Paragraph text is near the size I'd expect for headings.
>
> That 1.3em *must* go, as should 62.5%.
>
> --
> Berg

Hi Berg

I based it on this assumption:

"If you want to use percentages then in your body style use body
{ font-size: 62.5% } then you can use em's instead of pixels eg. p
{font-size: 1.1em}. Using the 62.5% resets the font sizes for the
entire site so that 1.0em is the same as 10px and will cascade through
the rest of the site. " as discussed on
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=42941,
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200602/setting_font_size_in_pixels/
and other places

Hi Everyone commenting....

I also believe that anyone who has accessibility issues (e.g. bad eye-
sight) would be much better off downloading firefox and use other
tricks to read websites properly rather than relying on philistines
like me to get it right. I am not saying we should be discriminatory,
but I feel in this group, a lot of time is wasted on trying to please
everyone, I think general usability issues are a lot more
interesting. To be everything to all people is just a bit over the
top. For example, if you write a heavy metal song, you are not
adjusting it so that everyone will like it and similarly you can not
expect an academic journal to dumb down their writings to that it is
accessible to the illiterate. I firmly believe that people should
create/write/design what they like and not what they think other would
want. I know that may sound radical, but I love diversity,
quirkiness, originality, etc... I dont like McDonalds (lowering food
to the lowest common denominator). The key is that your website is
accessible to the people you want to reach - right? Sometimes when
someone says : "hey your website does not work on my Gecko 0.8, using
my pink background, 90pixel screen, running on an Atari 64 " then I
think. Your are right! and the same is true for 1/3 of the worlds
population living on less than the dollar a day, nor the people who
dont like the internet or those who are currently under siege by the
US Army. That is, they are all valid points, but you have to place
them within the wider range of the real world. I will do my very best
to make more liquid sites, but I would love to get some comments about
things like "where should the menu be", "design ideas", "cultural
sensitivities", "navigation logic", "branding", etc.....

Thanks again for all your comments.... I am taking them on-board as I
write this.

Nicolaas

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