[thelist] [Site Review] Gemsnjewelry.com

[Jeff Howden]

shawn,

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> From: Shawn K. Quinn
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> > and it also isn't a necessity to be able to read it to
> > use the site.
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> It's still user-hostile and a bad habit to get into.
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such emotionally charged words for such a trivial non-issue.

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> > the rest of the text isn't going to be 6px, even on a
> > handheld unit. why? well, because it takes a minimum
> > of 7 pixels
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> 7 pixels doesn't have to be 7px. It could be 6px or even
> 5px.
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not without aliasing it can't.  letters can't be formed in a legible manner
under 7 pixels without using aliasing.

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> > to render characters of the alphabet so they're
> > legible.  besides, if it's on a unit that scales the
> > fonts down that much, it's likely that a) the unit
> > doesn't understand css making this moot
>
> How do you know?
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Perhaps because I've done a fair amount of testing with handhelds?

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> > possible, but simply not true, unless it's an
> > absolutely enormous resolution.  i'm running 1600x1280
> > on a 15" flat screen and it's plenty legible for me.
>
> And all your users have vision at least as good as
> yours, right?
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you know nothing about my vision, so let's not even bring that into question
here.  let's just say it's not 20/20, or anywhere even close actually.

it's lunacy to think that users would change their screen resolution to
something so large if they have poor vision.  more than likely they'll be
changing their resolution to something like 640x480 or 800x600 in which case
10px is actually quite readable.

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> > that faq contains arguments* that are reasonable for
> > body text, but hardly relevant to legalese type stuff
> > that you find in a footer. something that needs to be
> > understood is that arguments for relative vs absolute
> > font sizes is not a blanket statement.  relative sizes
> > are good in most cases, but not in all.
>
> There are two cases I know of in which absolute font
> sizes make some sense.
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there are actually many.

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> One is in a user (not author) style sheet.
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> The other is in a stylesheet for print (not screen
> display).
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there are some that would say that absolute font sizes in a print stylesheet
don't make sense either.

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> Some browsers actually let you change the font size to
> more than just one of "smaller", "small", "medium",
> "large", and "larger". With my usual browser, for
> example, I can have 72 point default text if I want
> it.
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and my guess is that same browser will also let you resize my 10px font-size
to something you deem more appropriate, once again making your argument
against absolute sizes moot.

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> If 75% might be too small, maybe try 80% or 85%?
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Then it's bigger than I want compared to the body text at default system
font sizes.

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> > * (no supporting evidence is included with the
> > arguments, some of which are quite outdated)
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> Which arguments would these be?
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The faq in the link you posted.

http://css.nu/faq/ciwas-aFAQ.html#QA02

.jeff

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