Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 10/16/07 19:06

Jim Moe wrote:
> On 10/16/07 09:43 am, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
>> She asked me to drop the list-style menu for a paragraph(!) because this
>> is the only way to have a common line-height:140% for all the text on
>> the site!
>>
> You can still achieve the spacing she desires by creative use of the
> padding and margins.

We tried this together, but she was really measuring pixels, and then
switching between safari (which seems to have a problem with em-unit
fractions (eg. 1.43em) for li-margins) and IE (which renders fonts
different), so this resulted in frustration. I lectured here for about
half an hour, showing her the page in Lynx and on my mobile phone, but
she was only like: 'The number of people using such devices in order to
view a website are close to zero, only geeks use this'... phheee...

> The fact that she does not care about markup is sad. Web design is much
> more than visual presentation; she does not understand that.
>> She calls herself webdesigner, but I said, that such an approach has
>> nothing to do with webdesign.
>>
> Correct. She is a graphics designer who has not embraced the realities
> of the Web medium. She is still stuck in print layout.

I told her that as well. I was like 'As a print oriented graphics
designer you also have to respect the limitations of the media, you
cannot design below certain font sizes as people will not be able to
read it'... but useless..

frustrated
bernhard


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