Monday, June 02, 2003


Tinkering


I’m trying to be a good citizen by removing absolute font sizes from my “blue” layout (I already have them mostly sorted with the “gray” one) but it’s not as smooth of a process as I’d like. Things probably look a little too dinky in most Mac browsers, but probably look better now with the huge font-size defaults on Windows. Expect continual tweaking over the next few days. If things get really broken, contact me.

this is one of the best, most succinct explanations as to why relative font sizes are a good idea, courtesy of Aaron Swartz:

The frustration with specifying a font-size is this:

a) If you specify no font size, it will look just right to people who know how to tell their browsr what their favorite font size is. And to people who don’t it will be rather large, like every web page they visit.

b) If you specify a font size, it will look smaller for those people who don’t know how to tell their browser what font size to use and it will look wrong to those who do.

I think the a is a much better choice, especially since most of your readers probably know how to tell their browser what font size to use.


:: Dave Walker 10:54 (EST/EDT) [+]

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Hey, the first thing I noticed when I pulled up your site was the change in font. I'm on my boyfriends Ti-book and everything looks good. I'll check your site on my PC when I get home.



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