- From: Dan B. <danb@kempt.net>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:48:31 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
Yes, I know that this is from almost a year ago, ...: Felix Miata wrote: > ... > IOW, author/designers are _never_ in position to choose the >optimal base sizing unit for anywhere but the displays they're viewing. > > What standards should be pushing for is for authors for the vast majority > of pages to choose only proportions among object sizes without regard to >absolute size, and for the users of the user agents to choose the >appropriate base sizes for each's own environment. ... > > The dominant text size on virtually every page should be 1rem. Virtually >everything that needs to be some other size should be sized as some multiple >or fraction of that user-defined base size. Authors get to choose >proportions. Users get to define the actual sizes that those proportions >produce as displayed results, .... > ... > Were this to take place, user agents would actually become agents of users, >rather than tools used by authors to make the web unnecessarily difficult >for ordinary and mildly challenged users to actually use. The built-in >adaptability of user agents encompasses the inherent advantage of the web >over print, which most unfortunately remains little more than a potential >advantage ever since CSS1 and its px unit were unleashed. ... but, as a web user who is frequently frustrated by tiny text (from pages/authors who tell _my_ browser to make that text smaller than _I_ already chose), I want to give that a big "Amen!" Daniel
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