[thelist] dynamic font size

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>>To sum up, nothing is 100% right for everyone.
>>The converse is also true: "nothing is 100% wrong for everyone".
;-)
Well indeed!
All those variables on the client side : visitors makes it very very hard to 
keep all happy.
>From one thing you come to the other and before you know it you can have 
created a huge bunch of checking and customizing..and then
not get everyone happy... I will rely a bit more on the users browser 
"default" font size...maybe have a switcher with different stylesheets...

cheers

Jeroen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VOLKAN ÖZÇELIK" <volkan.ozcelik at gmail.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] dynamic font size


>> Yes a pixel is a pixel regardless. The problem is that definition has no
>> meaning until you know the amount of space available for pixels to
>> occupy, and how many pixels are designated to occupy that available
>> space.
>
> But we should also note that generally users with high resolutions are
> users with large screen areas. For instance an 14inch monitor-user
> will possibly browse with
> 800*600, while an 17'' will possibly browser with 1024*768.
>
> If I am a CAD designer and prefer to user 12048*11024 on 17'' monitor
> or higher, even 1 em will be small for me.
>
> Besides, there are problems wrt mac/win dpi differences, css-rendering
> differences (of 1em normal) between various versions of MSIE and many
> more that I cannot recall right now. I do not want to go in detail but
> the issue is a candidate to take a whole chapter in a book on web
> typography.
>
> If you use pixels, you will make some unhappy. If you use em's you
> make some others unhappy. There is no means of making everyone
> satisfied.
>
> An alternative solution can be using different stylesheet and using
> a-la style switcher (or a server-side switcher if you do not want to
> rely on js)
>
> * * *
>
> I am not a pixel fan. And using em's is *not* a bad bad thing. The
> thing to keep in mind is not to specify font sizes less than 1 em;
> unless absolutely necessary.
>
> (However afaik, 1em corresponds to approximately 14px on msie-win
> 1024*768; which some designers (and some users) may think a
> larger-than necessary font size.)
>
>> If most text is too big on your own page on your own display, it
>> can only be because YOU have neglected to do the right thing, and first
>> set your default to your preference first before doing your page design.
>
> I completely agree on this. Some (actually more than some) designers
> on mac prefer to work with "small", even "smallest" text-size
> preferences as per the browser default; not "normal" - which is the
> default for the browser.
>
>> Using 100%/medium/1em for most page text is simply the right thing to
>> do, respecting the needs of visitors.
>
> partially (okay mostly) agree.
>
>> Preferring the wants and needs of
>> the clueless over the clueful is utterly backwards nonsense.
>
> If the clueless happens to be your client thing changes a lot :)
> If the client has a clue, but s/he thinks that the audience is clueless
> that's another story. You will have a hard time persuading your client.
>
> To sum up, nothing is 100% right for everyone.
> The converse is also true: "nothing is 100% wrong for everyone".
>
> Cheers,
> Volkan.
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