Date:         Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:05:52 EDT
   From: Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]>

   In a message dated 10/27/99 7:39:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
   [log in to unmask] writes:

   > The other way I can think of is to put everything in the default
   >     font and make a note for people to change their browser defaults to
   >     whatever size they want.  This might be a little more complicated for
   >     the user but involves less effort on your part.
   >
   >  Mark gets on his soapbox.  I think this is the wrong way to think
   >  about it. It actually takes a good bit more care and testing on the
   >  designer's part to make sure that their pages look good at different
   >  screen sizes, different screen resolutions, and with the visitor
   >  having significant control over the way the page looks. [Or maybe even
   >  having the page run through a text to speech program!] I also think
   >  that informing the user that they can control the size of their fonts
   >  is liberating.

   I'm confused here.  You start out by saying that designing a web
   page in the default font is the wrong way to think about things but
   then say that being able to change the font size is liberating.
Liberating for the user, not the designer.

Of course the folks at W3C have thought about these issues as well,
and assuming the browser manufacturers comply with the Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) level 2, the user will in fact have the last say.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS-access

[For those not likely to run off to this URL, Style Sheets are used
to describe the appearance of elements on a web page. This W3C note
describes a method for users to override the author's style sheet.
This basically allows the user to say, specify a larger font size,
if that will aid them. - Of course we'll have to see if this actually
gets implemented].

Hopefully, there will arise web sites with various style sheets to
meet many folks needs.

Mark.

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