Posted by Ed Jensen on 11/07/07 15:32

Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> The tiny font problem has nothing to do with CSS; it is the fault
> of the developer who specified ridiculously small fonts. The
> problem predates CSS, when it was common to see <font size=-1> (or
> even -2) to use smaller fonts.
>
> Small fonts are just as often used with table layouts as with CSS.

Small fonts aren't a problem in Firefox (my browser of choice). I
just increase the text size until the text is a comfortable size for
reading.

The problem is web sites that render incorrectly after the font size
is increased.

I'm not trying to start a "table based layouts" vs. "CSS based
layouts" war here, I'm just sharing my personal experience: Web sites
designed with table based layouts seem to handle it reasonably well
when I increase the text size. Web sites designed with CSS based
layouts seem to rarely handle it gracefully. YMMV.

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