Felix Miata wrote: > Bert Bos wrote: > >> Maybe if browsers ship with a minimum font size of 9pt out of the box >> (or a font-size normalization routine, as above), those Web designers >> will realize that they have misunderstood what their readers want and >> that the browser window isn't something they control, but something >> they share with millions of other people. > > Let's see what they do with this idea: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209879 (Camino, already > implemented) > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286254 (Mozilla) > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286255 (Firefox) Just a reminder that as diagrammed in [1], 9pt is most often the smallest legible size without anti-aliasing. 7pt (even 6 or less in some fonts) is legible and useful with anti-aliasing [2]. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1997Nov/0089 [2] http://people.w3.org/~lesch/minimum.pngReceived on Friday, 18 March 2005 16:04:13 GMT
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