Posted by Bergamot on 09/23/07 19:42

windandwaves wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2:17 am, Bergamot <berga...@visi.com> wrote:
>> windandwaves wrote:
>>
>> >> >http://www.winsborough.co.nz/
>>
>> Setting body font-size:62.5% than overriding paragraph et al with
>> font-size:1.3em is a really stupid practice.
>
> http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=42941,
> http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200602/setting_font_size_in_pixels/

Hmmm... articles written by deeziners for deeziners. Why would you think
they have a clue? They really want everything in px, to maintain their
loverly deezines. They have merely deluded themselves into thinking they
are now more accessible or something. I'm not sure what they think, but
they are wrong.

> I also believe that anyone who has accessibility issues (e.g. bad eye-
> sight) would be much better off downloading firefox

Um, I already use a browser that is more intelligent than most
deeziners. It can't fix everything, though.

> and use other
> tricks to read websites properly rather than relying on philistines
> like me to get it right.

In your case, disabling stylesheets altogether seems the best choice.
Why would you want your visitors to do things like that, when it is so
unnecessary?

If you insist on setting a type size that is less than 100%, then don't
do it the stupid way. Just set body text at 85% and forget about bumping
up paragraph text to compensate for being so tiny. At least then
everybody will have a fighting chance to get it a comfortable size
without disabling CSS altogether.

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Berg

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