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From: Michael Glaesemann <[email protected]>
To: Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
Cc: Gavin M. Roy <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Design Rough
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:53:56 +0900
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On May 13, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Alexey Borzov wrote:

> Now on to the problems:
> 1) I suggest doing a fixed (in pt, probably) font-size. Current 
> 'small' has very different sizes in MSIE 6 and Mozilla (OK in Mozilla, 
> too big in MSIE).

I strongly recommend *not* using fixed font sizes. As an alternative, 
I'd suggest using alternative style sheets and a css-style switcher. If 
people find it too big (or too small), they can easily change the size 
for themselves. Using fixed point sizes is a definite strike against 
accessibility. Using fixed font sizes prevents people from resizing the 
font size using their browsers, among other things.

Here are a couple of links for different css style switching 
implementations. They can be used, of course, to do much more than just 
change font size.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/n4switch/

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com

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