[WEB4LIB] Re: tangent to Re: Inline forms in CSS problem

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

Thank you all once again for explaining this in a way I can understand &
implement.
I now have most everything declared at '90%' instead of 12px, with 'li' tags
at 100% so they will not be smaller than the 'ul' parents.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Dowling" <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: tangent to Re: Inline forms in CSS problem


> At 12:34 PM 2/26/2002, Nancy Sosna Bohm wrote:
> > > [First things first: "font-size: 10px;" is bad.  You don't know how
small
> > > 10px is on the user's monitor.  Stick with relative sizes.]
> >
> >Are px's really so bad in CSS?
>
> Yes.
> >It seems that if the user has their pixels
> >set really high, they expect teeny tiny fonts.
>
>
> No.  They expect really *clear* fonts, made up of many more pixels per
> character than lower-resolution users get.  They *may* choose to trade off
> some of that clarity to use slightly smaller onscreen fonts (in point
> size), but not necessarily.
>
> Fixed font sizing, whatever the unit of measurement, is also grossly
unfair
> to users with vision problems.  Sure, the author's sizing can be
> overridden, but why force that drastic action if it isn't otherwise
necessary?
>
>
> >The relative sizes seem
> >almost arbitrary across different platforms.
>
> Regardless of platform, text that is accurately rendered at, say, 90% of
> the user's comfortable font size is still legible for short, de-emphasized
> text.  Text rendered at  x number of pixels has no known relationship to a
> user's comfortable font size.
>
> Perhaps you're referring to a bugs in a browser whose error-riddled CSS
> support is now over five years old, and whose own developers declared it
> defunct more than three years ago.  The pages I write are usable in such a
> dilapidated browser, but I no longer go far out my way to fine tune its
> display.
>
>
>
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>