- From: Windy Road <tom@windyroad.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:15:47 +1000
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 12/06/07, Paul Nelson (ATC) <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com> wrote: > Hand held devices don't need text that is smaller in size just because they > have smaller screens. A user still needs 10-11 points of font size to view > the text without having a lot of eye strain. In some scripts the font size > needs to be even larger to be comfortably readable. But they do need the font-size to be smaller if the designer wishes the web page to look the same regardless of the pixel width of the screen. Yes, my example will be unreadable on a small display (such as a phone), but the intention is that zooming on the client would resolve this. You could use Photosynth (see http://labs.live.com/photosynth/ ) as an example of un-discernible content becoming discernible when zooming. The videos of Safari on the iPhone are also a good example of the desired effect. Cheers, -- Tom Howard http://windyroad.org
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