Re: Design Rough

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
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