Re: common font errors even on pro-designed sites

Just a personal opinion of course, but I would find this annoying.
I often change the font size setting when I'm browsing because some web
designers have better eyesight than me and set font sizes too small, and
because they have no idea at what resolution I surf at I also see websites
where the font size is bigger than necessary.
I believe that font sizes should be in the control of the visitor, not the
designer. Or at least let the visitors change it if they want to. On my
sites I often put font size=+1 or -1 if I want different sizes on a page,
but I'll leave the basic size up to the visitors own browser setting.
.02 cents

Howard


----- Original Message -----
From: "D Benfer" <dmb(at)mokee.com>
To: "Hwg-Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 1:14 PM
Subject: RE: common font errors even on pro-designed sites


> I have a machine that has ME freshly installed and the default is not
> smallest on my machine. It was set to medium. But your point, I feel, is
> valid. I just switched the font tags on one of my projects to not include
a
> SIZE designation on any pages. I set the size in pixels through style
> sheets. Now, no matter what the user does with the font size setting they
> should see the same size text on that site. The only possible exception
will
> be those that set their browser to a certain style no matter the page is
> programmed for, but the majority won't know how to do this anyway. You
would
> think the "bigger" sites out there would do something similar...
>
> Darren Benfer (dmb(at)mokee.com)
> Mokee Computer Technologies LLC
> www.mokee.com | 877-801-1343
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Bennett Haselton
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 6:59 AM
> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: RE: common font errors even on pro-designed sites
>
>
> I just checked my IE View->Text setting and it was indeed set to
> "Smallest".
>
> Which raises the question: since this was my default IE 5.5 installation
> that came with a fresh install of Windows ME right off the CD, doesn't
that
> mean there are probably a lot of users with this setting?  Hence, that a
> lot of users are having the same font problems when viewing these sites.
>
>          -Bennett
>
>
>
>

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