[thelist] dynamic font size

[Felix Miata]

=?ISO-8859-9?Q?VOLKAN_=D6Z=C7EL=DDK?= wrote:

> Because only pixel is universal across all platforms/browsers.
> 1px is 1px; the smallest tiny dot on the screen in MSIE-win, in
> Safari-Mac, in Opera-Linux, in Saturn Neptun Pluto...

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.

High resolution puts more pixels into any given amount of space. High
resolution is supposed to be functionally equivalent to high quality,
not with making everything tiny, which is precisely what happens when
pages sized with pixels are displayed at high resolution. Given any
particular size display, a pixel on 800x600 resolution is 1/4 the size
of a pixel on 1600x1200 resolution.

People using high resolution do not deserve to have mousetype foisted on
them, nor does anyone else deserve you overriding their preferential
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.
Using 100%/medium/1em for most page text is simply the right thing to
do, respecting the needs of visitors, infinitesimally few or none of
which you can know.

Whether or how many visitors may or may not know how or whether they can
adjust their own preference or zoom page text is irrelevant. The fact is
that some totally unknown number know. Preferring the wants and needs of
the clueless over the clueful is utterly backwards nonsense.

See URL below for more.
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