[ZWeb] DISCUSS: Font size

[Paul Everitt]

Perhaps this is worth investigating:

   http://www.alistapart.com/stories/sizematters/

I found this from the glish.com/css site.

--Paul

Paul Everitt wrote:
> Olivier Deckmyn wrote:
> 
>>> That's too bad.  Nearly all the docs I have read have encouraged people
>>> to switch to em as a relative point size.  While things look better on
>>> your browser, they look worse on mine (Mozilla under Linux on a big
>>
>>
>> screen).
>>
>>> Perhaps we need to find a way to accomodate this better.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've been working on this subject for months. It's the only "not bad"
>> solution i've found. I think one can not mix "nice design" with "scalable
>> fonts". It's only my point of view.
> 
> 
> It's nice design, if you are on Windows and don't want to adjust the 
> text size.
> 
> I viewed the page under IE in Win2k.  I tried to change the text size 
> (View->Text Size->Larger) and nothing happened.
> 
> I tried it under three browsers under Linux.  On one (Konqueror in KDE 
> 3) it was readable.  Under two (Mozilla and Netscape) the font was too 
> small to read.
> 
> I agree that we need nice design.  I'd also like to be able to read the 
> pages.  :^)
> 
> For now I'll try to isolate the font settings into a separate css, to 
> make it easy for us to work with until we find the right choice.
> 
> --Paul
> 
> 
> 
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