[thelist] Site check please rocky-hills.com

[Felix Miata]

Scott Glasgow wrote:

[re: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/rocky.png &
http://www.rocky-hills.com/sample/mfh/index.shtml]
 
> I would think that
> most users with that level of lack of visual acuity might be using either a
> reader or a magnifier in any event.

That screenshot implies absolutely zip about anyone's visual acuity. The
simple fact is that 12px (set on body in
http://www.rocky-hills.com/sample/mfh/style.css) at 1792x1344 resolution
is less than half the size of typical newspaper front page copy on my
19" CRT and probably even also on a 22" CRT display. Even at a much more
common 1280 wide resolution 12px is far too small, making the page
painful if stuck using IE http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/rocky2.png . A
12px character box provides about 72 discrete dots per character box
compared to my 20px preference's 200, a dismal 36%.

Quite simply, unless access to anyone and everyone (non-discrimination)
is not a design objective, px is always the wrong way to size text on a
web page. px sized text wholly disregards what any user wants or needs,
unless just by chance it happens to match a particular user's own
preference. Universal access/non-discrimination is something I would
fully expect of this particular site.

> I was also kinda curious as to how one
> designs _any_ layout that survives zoom to essentially any arbitrary level
> of magnification. Seems like the old "10 pounds in a 5 pound bag" problem,
> ya know.

It really isn't hard once you understand a simple basic shown here:
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/widths-em-v-px.html
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