Re: Is the end of HTML as we know it?

Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Small fonts aren't a problem in Firefox (my browser of choice). I
just increase the text size until the text is a comfortable size for
reading.

With a well-designed site, you don't have to do that.

(Besides, with Firefox, you needn't do that, either; just set a
minimum font size.)

I tried setting a minimum font size. All those web sites that use
broken CSS based layouts make that solution suboptimal.

The problem is web sites that render incorrectly after the font size
is increased.

That is bad coding; there is no need for that to happen.

It's just a shame the vast majority of web sites fall into the
category of "badly coded". :(

I'm not trying to start a "table based layouts" vs. "CSS based
layouts" war here, I'm just sharing my personal experience: Web sites
designed with table based layouts seem to handle it reasonably well
when I increase the text size. Web sites designed with CSS based
layouts seem to rarely handle it gracefully. YMMV.

That is not a function of tables versus CSS; it's a matter of good
coding versus bad coding.

Perhaps tables are "more forgiving" when it comes to badly coded web
sites. <shrug>
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