Posted by Ed Jensen on 11/07/07 17:45

Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> With a well-designed site, you don't have to do that.
>
> (Besides, with Firefox, you needn't do that, either; just set a
> minimum font size.)

I tried setting a minimum font size. All those web sites that use
broken CSS based layouts make that solution suboptimal.

>> The problem is web sites that render incorrectly after the font size
>> is increased.
>
> That is bad coding; there is no need for that to happen.

It's just a shame the vast majority of web sites fall into the
category of "badly coded". :(

>> 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.
>
> That is not a function of tables versus CSS; it's a matter of good
> coding versus bad coding.

Perhaps tables are "more forgiving" when it comes to badly coded web
sites. <shrug>

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