RE: Font Sizes

I have not major problem with relative sizes for fonts.
How many font sizes are available on a phone 1, 2  or 3 and how do you 
specify them, font-size:small; medium, large, extra-large/small, extra-extra 
large/small? I have a Sharp GX15 it only has 2 font sizes. No 
manufacture/retailer gives this info.

I have spent time measuring the actual size of the screen in shops as it is 
not available. Many phones have the same screen size in pixels but have 
totally different physical dimensions. Pixel sizes range from 0.14 to 
0.28mm, (one phone had rectangular pixels .20/.28)
Default fonts take care of this to some extent but it still leaves the web 
designer without control of their design.
As for images, Its down to luck. There is no control over images. Using 
relative dimensions are ok for pritty pictures but usless for anything with 
text, lines or defined features. I have even had a rectangular image 
displayed as a square.
The W3 reccomndations say "Do not use Tables for Layout" Tell me how to 
center a fixed size image on a page without using tables for a fluid design 
to cater for 176/240px screen widths? Auto - Width - Auto does not work.
We must applaude Bill Gates, his monoply means that I came design a web page 
for a PC and I know it will display exactly on any machine/browser/monitor. 
With the competing commercial interests I cannot see this happening, rather 
the reverse. In the UK O2 are heavily promoting "One Touch Internet with 
I-Mode"

My recomendations.
1. Standardise screen widths to 176 and 240px. Have a screen width sniffer 
similar to JavaScript, so different CSS can be used.
2. Standardise the size of fonts to 3 sizes small, medium, large, all with 
bold and italic. No font styles other than default.
3. Method of centering images for fluid design. I use absolute positioning 
with negative margin on my PC.
4. Extend the properties of xHTMK-mp to use commonly used features of xHTML.
5. Get the manufacturers to specify exactly what each phone does relevant to 
web design. It is common knowledge that phone manufactures are have similar 
phones that have different features. Sharp's Internet site say my phone is 
60 x 120, its in fact 160+ wide.

If the phone manufactures/service provides want their customers to have a 
good experience they better get it right and quickly. Camera phones are an 
example, do people really want them? have they thought about the social 
consequence? I'm a teacher, they added another wepon to the school bully = 
Happy slapping!

Tony Bell

Received on Saturday, 19 November 2005 05:29:12 UTC