Clarification on Font Size and Inheritance.

"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell (AT) ph (DOT) gla.ac.uk> writes:

Authors who say "the font looks too big *to me*" isn't what I'd call
an adequate excuse to interfere with the reader's right to choose.

There's never an *adequate* excuse (well, certain default aspect ratios
are really terrible, notably sans-serif/monospace on Linux distros
I've used; or /cursive/ -- Mr. Clark's desperate attempts at
http://blog.fawny.org/ to produce something suitable on *n*x is
wonderfully illegible -- I'd prefer a call for Arial any day, mainly
because I *don't* have it, as opposed to suggesting Courier for
monospaced issues improving things a lot -- *here*, that is). But there
commonly _is_ a problem; there just ain't no solution at the wrong end
of the wire. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be an adequate
approach for most business applications.

'Adequate' has grown pretty meaningless to me in that sense; I pretty
much know what's adequate or how to make a case when preaching to the
choir.

As a reader, of course, I set a minimum font size in my browser, to
protect me from those idiot authors who persist in trying to reduce
the font size way below what I chose for myself.

Not to give a wrong impression, as a reader, I mostly use a 10 inch
screen with a resolution of 1024*768. With a default 14px size as
minimum, thanks to the wonders of CSS, that also requires some serious
greasemonkey hacking to use some contemporary, uh, web-services.

Eric B. Bednarz wrote:

"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell (AT) ph (DOT) gla.ac.uk> writes:



Not to give a wrong impression, as a reader, I mostly use a 10 inch
screen with a resolution of 1024*768. With a default 14px size as
minimum, thanks to the wonders of CSS, that also requires some serious
greasemonkey hacking to use some contemporary, uh, web-services.

Umm, is that a typo? A 10-inch screen at 1024x768? I'd love some details.

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Rob McAninch wrote:

How many visitors to the average site actually know how to change
the font size in the browser?

How many drivers actually know how to adjust their seats and
their rear-view mirror?

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Ed Mullen wrote:

Eric B. Bednarz wrote:

"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell (AT) ph (DOT) gla.ac.uk> writes:

[**nothing** that you quoted...]

Not to give a wrong impression, as a reader, I mostly use a 10 inch
screen with a resolution of 1024*768.

Umm, is that a typo? A 10-inch screen at 1024x768? I'd love some
details.

I suppose we should wait for Eric's response, but it could be the
horizontal dimension of a not unreasonable laptop?

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Rob McAninch wrote:

How many visitors to the average site actually know how to
change the font size in the browser?

How many drivers actually know how to adjust their seats and
their rear-view mirror?

How many web users have been trained, tested, and licensed to
operate the web browser? (Speaking of U.S. laws at any rate.)

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Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri (AT) rrzn-user (DOT) uni-hannover.de> wrote in
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How many drivers actually know how to adjust their seats and
their rear-view mirror?

How many web users have been trained, tested, and licensed to
operate the web browser? (Speaking of U.S. laws at any rate.)

I don't know about the US, but we certainly don't get trained, tested
and licensed to adjust the seat and mirrors. If they need adjusting, you
work it out.

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Ed Mullen <ed (AT) edmullen (DOT) net> writes:

Eric B. Bednarz wrote:

I mostly use a 10 inch screen with a resolution of 1024*768

Umm, is that a typo?

Uh, right. Must be something pathological, as I made it before. I'll
better have a look into auto-correction. It's 12".

(also, I rather wanted to make a point about _not_ using anything
special ;-)

A 10-inch screen at 1024x768?

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