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RE: How do I get bigger fonts? |
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Topic:
RE: How do I get bigger fonts?|
Author: Anonymous |
Time: 15.12.2001 12:48 |
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Paul,
Frankly I wouldn't bother with trying to provide users with their own stylesheets. It's a nice touch, but it's pretty much of a "gadget." Browsers with strong CSS support--including Netscape 6--allow users to set font size and face preferences, as well as override site specifications to display your pages with their own hand-written stylesheets. (When you say Netscape doesn't allow users to override font specifications, I guess you mean Netscape 4 for PC. But Netscape 4 for Mac allows users to override page styling. In any event, Netscape 4 will soon be history.) I'm assuming your zez stylesheet is written like the one provided with ezPublish. In that stylesheet I believe you set font size by pixel height. This is generally considered bad styling practice for accessibility--precisely for those users who want larger (or smaller) font faces on your site. So what I WOULD do is use relative heights for your fonts, preferably em heights, 1em being the user-specified height for regular text as in a normal paragraph. This could be 9px for some users and 16px for others. That way your font sizes adjust automatically to user specified preferences. No further work needed. :) Go to http://www.w3.org -> CSS and have a look at their Core Styles. They've got an on-line service that allows you to view their stylesheets and example pages output by them. Also see http://www.webstandards.org. This group, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, encourages web designers to write for interoperability and the latest browsers. If design "breaks" on older browsers, users are informed and urged to update their browsers. However, adherence to standards allow pages to remain legible. Bottom line: Write to standard. Which seems thoroughly in the spirit of eZ and zez... aside from your "bad" font height specification in pixels. CCheerS, TF Paschall |
Message threads
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| How do I get bigger fonts? | Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen | 10.11.2000 10:32 | |
| RE: How do I get bigger fonts? | Anonymous | 15.12.2001 12:48 | |
| RE: How do I get bigger fonts? | Anonymous | 15.12.2001 16:33 |
