Posted by Ed Jensen on 11/05/07 21:46

Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I understand what you're saying - I do the same. But don't blame CSS on
> the developer's poor choice of font sizes.

It's not really a font size problem. People viewing web pages should
be able to override the fonts and font sizes in web pages and the web
page should still render correctly.

The problem is that when users do that, the web pages end up rendering
incorrectly.

> Not if they're designed properly. However, there are too many people
> who think they're web developers who don't have any idea what they're
> doing. And they don't try different default font sizes.

My experience has been that CSS based layout problems are pretty much
universal. Big sites, small sites, free sites, expensive sites,
amateur sites, professional sites.

> Sure. Good CSS doesn't suffer from those problems. It's all in
> understanding the markup and testing.

This is where we disagree.

I've been in the software development field for a long time, and I've
come to realize that when almost everyone is using a tool incorrectly,
it's almost always because the tool itself is poorly designed.

If almost everyone is getting their CSS based layouts wrong, something
is probably wrong with CSS based layout technology in general.

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