Gunlaug Sørtun wrote Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:42:29 +0100: > Felix Miata wrote:
> >>> Be wary of believing a horizontal scrollbar on zoom to be a > >>> problem. Larger absolute sizes tend to go hand in hand with wider > >>> viewports and higher resolutions. > >> I disagree with Felix on this point > > How? Why? > Well, I have never found a reason to change the width of my viewports or > use higher resolution. What you say above seems to disagree with http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_01_02.html in its last section. > I do tend to 'blow up' / 'zoom up' text and/or > entire web-pages in order to see what's written in them though. Blowing up or zooming makes larger absolute sizes. > So it seems like my 'larger absolute sizes' do not go hand in hand with > what you suggest - at my end. Thus, I disagree. My statement didn't refer to web carpenters. It referred to users, and it's about understanding context and perspective when testing a layout against various font sizes. Users rarely choose fonts so big that only six or seven words per line fit a fullscreen viewport. Zooming 4-5 times is usually necessary only when the encountered text size is 4-5 times below the user's default, usually when the web carpenter has emulated microfont sites like gateway.com, microsoft.com, apple.com and espn.go.com. As long as you're setting sizes that correspond to and are compatible with the 10pt-14pt range that studies we here have seen referred from time to time to have shown most web users prefer, you shouldn't expect many people to be doing a whole lot of multi-step zooming. -- "Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
