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OT: Symbol for font size change?
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| Jam Pa 2005-05-18, 4:36 am |
| This is slightly off topic, but kinda on topic.
I am wondering what kind of symbol, text or icon would you use for 'smaller
font' and 'larger font' or 'decrease text size' and 'increase text size'
links on a web page?
ATM I am using 'a-' and 'A+' text links on a linkbar. I must say many seem
confused..
cheers,
JP
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| Alan J. Flavell 2005-05-18, 4:36 am |
| On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jam Pa wrote:
> I am wondering what kind of symbol, text or icon would you use for 'smaller
> font' and 'larger font' or 'decrease text size' and 'increase text size'
> links on a web page?
Nothing at all. That functionality is in the browser, there's no
cause to go distracting users with a functionality that only works on
a few sites.
Naturally you'll be sizing text in em units based on the user's
preferred setting, right?
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| "C A Upsdell" <""cupsdellXXX\"@-@-@XXXupsdell.com"> wrote in message
news:NJmdnfTFtpGyCBXfRVn-gw@rogers.com...
> Jam Pa wrote:
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> Why would you need these? Browsers already offer mechanisms for users to
> set their preferred font sizes.
But if you only want to change the font size on a particular site, and not
have to reset it when you leave the site?
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| kchayka 2005-05-18, 7:46 pm |
| Tony wrote:
> "C A Upsdell" <""cupsdellXXX\"@-@-@XXXupsdell.com"> wrote in message
> news:NJmdnfTFtpGyCBXfRVn-gw@rogers.com...
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> But if you only want to change the font size on a particular site, and not
> have to reset it when you leave the site?
A couple things you may not have considered:
1. Sites that feel the need to incorporate such "features" tend to set
font sizes in puny and/or absolute sizes. If they left body text at the
visitor's default 1em/100%, the visitor would have no need to change the
text size in the first place.
2. I've seen dozens of sites using such a "feature". In virtually every
case, the author's idea of a "large" font size and mine are no where
near each other. Even their largest size is smaller than my default.
It's quite likely the visitor would have to zoom text anyway.
So, you do all that work for what benefit? None, AFAICT.
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| "David Dorward" <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Tony wrote:
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> Why would a user prefer to view text at a different size on different
> sites?
> Leave the font size at the user's preference in the first place (rather
> then setting it to a small proportion of that preference) and you should
> be
> fine.
Hey, I'm not even arguing it's a good idea. But you asked "why", so I
offered a possible answer :)
Maybe one site is designed with a really small base font size to begin with.
Or one that's hard to read when it's a certain size. I don't know
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| C A Upsdell 2005-05-20, 7:38 pm |
| Jam Pa wrote:
> This is slightly off topic, but kinda on topic.
>
> I am wondering what kind of symbol, text or icon would you use for 'smaller
> font' and 'larger font' or 'decrease text size' and 'increase text size'
> links on a web page?
Why would you need these? Browsers already offer mechanisms for users
to set their preferred font sizes.
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| Jam Pa 2005-05-20, 7:38 pm |
| C A Upsdell <""cupsdellXXX\"@-@-@XXXupsdell.com"> wrote in
news:NJmdnfTFtpGyCBXfRVn-gw@rogers.com:
> Jam Pa wrote:
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> Why would you need these? Browsers already offer mechanisms for users
> to set their preferred font sizes.
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So true.. Yeah well, I just work here, I dont make the decisions :)
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