Felix Miata wrote: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:42:29 +0100:
>> 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. This 'web carpenter' tend to test into the extremes, in order to see what might happen - if... As a web user I am a lot more modest and stick to the more ordinary 640 - 1280 wide screen. I don't see a contradiction in following my own preferences while testing for others. It just broadens my horizon a bit, and makes web development less boring. OTOH, I don't mind contradictions... ... > 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. So far, so good. You'll hit within most "ordinary" visitors' preferences with that. Since you didn't target 'web carpenters' with that statement, I guess I shouldn't be commenting at all :-) You should have stated that too so I could have stayed clear ;-) I personally don't care about users' preferences. I just try to accommodate as wide a range of them as I can - as well as I can, regardless of how "strange" those preferences might seem to me. I've found that such an approach doesn't add to the workload or create any real new problems for most visitors. It just gives me a chance to test the limits of the tools at hand - standards and user-agents. The acquired knowledge /just might/ come handy one day... regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
