Hello!

This is my first message in this (and probably any!) forum. So here it goes.

As a person interested in webdesign and using some of my spare time reading about the subject I understood the following:
1. Standards are good.
2. Accessability is part of standards and good too.
3. Adjustable text size (the text size changes if I change my browser settings) is part of accessability requiermant and good.
4. alistapart.com is one of the reference sites regarding the subject.

So the question then is why the site happycog.com that is the publisher of alistapart.com does not provide posibility for the adjustable text size?
They advertise themself as big standard entusiasts. So what's a deal? If it was one of their client's site I whould think that the customer insisted on the fixed text size. But this is they own site.

I was thinking that this is basic and has to really go with any proper CSS based site.
What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for clearing my confusion.

Hi!

Ok... I get it now... almost... In Firefox it is adjustable. But as i understand Firefox forses text size to be changed even if it is coded with pixel size. But in the old "good" IE6 it stays the same regardless of what I choose in "View - Text Size" option.

I know the deal about IE6, but it is still the most used browser...

Thanks for the quick reply! :-)

I don't know, I emailed him about the broken link on his Taking your Talent to the Web book page, but he didn't reply or fix the link http://www.zeldman.com/talent/sample.html

Tsk tsk @ link rot.

@Zaigham

I do not understand how can some one criple accessability for more than 70% of potential viewers. People swaet trying to fix the code fore all possible minor browsers but such an obvious think is neglected in the main one.

I think one of the greatest things about this industry and the time we are in right now is that it is ever-chaning.

This is a good opportunity to remember that we all learned from Meyer and Zeldman in the begining -- but by no means do they do everything correctly or perfectly. I just hope a lot of the new people to CSS are questioning these types of things -- asking why this way and why not another. Just because your site doesnt mimic every choice Zeldman made or just because it isnt "bulletproof" doesn't make it wrong.

To the original question -- find out why people make the font size choices they do and then find the right solution for yourself. There is rarely a "best way" to do anything with CSS -- there is more commonly a lot of "really good" ways to accomplish similar objectives.