Posted by Bone Ur on 11/07/07 19:32

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:32:43 GMT
Ed Jensen scribed:

>> 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.

Maybe so, but css is _much_ better able to handle changing font-sizes than
tables ever were, -take my word for it. If you've happened to run into a
lot of bad css in the past, I think the future will be considerably
brighter.

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Bone Ur
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