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Posted by Neredbojias on 12/25/39 11:26
With neither quill nor qualm, Jim Higson quothed:
> Neredbojias wrote:
>
> > With neither quill nor qualm, Jim Higson quothed:
> >
> >>
> >> Most sites seem to use smaller text smaller than the user's default for
> >> their content. Not just badly designed sties - a lot of the very
> >> beautiful pages on CSS Zen Garden have text at 80% or smaller. From what
> >> I can tell, this is because browsers (IE especially) have the default
> >> text size set to be quite large.
> >>
> >> Now, if users are used to text being set to 80% in CSS, they will set
> >> their default size to 120% or so, thus getting it back up to a sane size.
> >> I do this: I like reading 10px text, but if I keep that as the default I
> >> have to hit Ctrl-plus for every site, so I set my browser to use size 14.
> >>
> >> When designing sites I like to respect the users' preferences, and have
> >> always thought the main content should be the default size, but once
> >> users have compensated for every other site using 60~90% for their
> >> default text this is making the text on my sites look large and out of
> >> place. Plus there are many IE users who don't realise they can change
> >> their default text size and just wonder why my text is so large.
> >>
> >> The "font-size:80%" phenomenon seems to be a larger problem among web
> >> designers of following the letter of the spec (validating HTML etc) but
> >> not in the spirit by actually using the tools as intended.
> >>
> >> What to do?
> >
> > Go out drinking. In lieu of that
>
> Can't I do both?
Of course. In fact, the problem won't seem as serious if you do.
>
> > , if you're capable at javascript, you
> > can detect the actual size of text on users' browsers and adjust it
> > accordingly. (Javascript users only, of course.)
>
> Ok, I'd say I'm capable at Javascript.
> Check out my pet project beta (in Gecko)
> http://81.5.150.113/wysi
?? I got this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>Wikiwyg</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="skins/monobook/main.cssz"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="wysimain.cssz"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="all.jamz"/><script
type="text/javascript">window.onload = init;</script>
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico"/>
</head><body/></html>
>
> It'll be released proper pretty soon.
>
> > Example:
> >
> > http://www.neredbojias.com/alpha/rextex.html
>
> This is interesting, but I'm not certain what they're doing is what I want.
> They're resizing the text to always only just fill the page without
> scrolling. I don't think this'd work very well for my 700 word articles.
No, it was meant as an example only. Put some text in a container,
gauge the height of said container with javascript, and resize the text
accordingly. The "example" proves the technique works.
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Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.
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