From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,967ae26df92535de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-16 16:44:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!usc.edu!newspeer.cts.com!galanthis.cts.com!127.0.0.1.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Sender: kst@king.cts.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Software Forum References: <3D8356A7.9010208@worldnet.att.net> <9_2h9.18347$0p1.331293@news2.ulv.nextra.no> <3D84DD98.6080504@worldnet.att.net> <3D84E044.9020306@worldnet.att.net> From: Keith Thompson Date: 16 Sep 2002 16:43:57 -0700 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.68.192.180 X-Trace: 1032219837 nntp.cts.com 318 209.68.192.180 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29051 Date: 2002-09-16T16:43:57-07:00 List-Id: "CodeMage" writes: [...] > There's always a thin line between layout and accessibility of a web site. > Theoretically, one should never assume anything about screen resolution, > font size/color or anything else in the viewer's web browser. In the case of > the CodeMages Community web site however we have chosen to assume a certain > minimum screen resolution and an acceptable accessibility level on the most > widely used web browsers. That is, it looks good on most browsers for most > people. My apologies that for some people this means that the standard font > of the site (8pt Verdana) is too small to be considered comfortably > readable. Why do you feel the need to tell my browser how to display your text? I've configured my browser so that text is presented, by default, at a size I find comfortable. Anything smaller than that is going to be difficult for me to read. Your choice of dark blue on light blue also doesn't help legibility. If I have to tweak my browser settings to read your site, I'm afraid it's just not going to be worth my time. As it happens, the browser I use, Opera, has a button that toggles between author mode and user mode; when I press it, your site appears in Adobe-Times at some reasonable size, in black on white. Most browsers make this more difficult, though, if not impossible. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> Schroedinger does Shakespeare: "To be *and* not to be"