- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 22:42:59 +0100
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- CC: Adam Twardoch <list.adam@twardoch.com>, www-style@w3.org
David Hyatt wrote: > I'm well aware that visual jumping could occur on poorly designed Web > sites if the feature were to become wildly popular. I don't understand why you believe that this would occur (only or primarily) in "poorly designed Web sites" : I would have thought that exactly the opposite would be the case. A well-designed web site (IMHO) adjusts its flow to accommodate widely varying font sizes so as to allow each viewer of the site to adjust the font size to best meet his or her needs; such a site would (I suggest) also adjust well to the replacement of a default font by a web font once the latter has loaded, but the reflow would be clearly visible. A poorly designed web site, on the other hand, that uses fixed width containers, may well avoid the reflow problem, but at the expense of cropping and/or enforced horizontal scrolling when the font dimensions cause the container to overflow. Philip TAYLOR
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