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Absolute fonts sizes in non IE browsers?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]That must be a poor design (sorry).[/quote] An interesting statement, considering I didn't mention what I'm actually [b]designing[/b]. :) Indeed, the part of this website that requires pixel perfect control will reduce the accessibility of the website. However, it's not targeted towards people with outdated prescriptions for their glasses and anyone running a stupidly high resolution on a tiny monitor deserves to go blind. At the end of the day, the text size is adequate for a modestly high resolution and the usability benefits far outweigh the accessibility pitfalls this may cause, so I'd consider that a fairly good design decision. [quote]Agreed, IE makes the "right" thing, but browsers that lets you scale does the better thing IMO.[/quote] Well IMO, percentages and em's are what a designer should use unless precise pixel control of fonts are required, in which case you'd turn to using px. You said it yourself, with browsers doing this you'd have to resort to using images for text or scripting hacks, which is two steps backwards. This trend of browsers taking away what little control is afforded to web designers in the event someone runs into a poorly designed page is really starting to get under my skin. The default pop-blocking setting in FF is another one. Since when was it considered okay for browsers to start disabling web technologies by default. How many so called "bad practices" will they be hiding from us in 5 years? How is this ever going to help the web become "easy to access" ??? shug I'm ranting again, shutting up now. [quote]The user stylesheet takes precedence.[/quote] I figured as much. Thanks for clearing that up for me. :) Loading...
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