new documentation format for std.algorithm

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Feb 3 05:51:51 PST 2011


On 2011-02-03 07:21, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/2/11 11:06 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>> On 02/02/2011 10:59 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (Absolute) font size does not belong to the page designer, instead to
>>>> the user. Just press dedicated key binding (often ctrl-), or whatever
>>>> command to set it appropriately.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure about that. Facebook's site is professionally designed and
>>> I think they use fixed font sizes all over the place.
>>
>> There are tons of "professionally designed" big name sites all over the
>> web that use fixed-font sizes that either look terribly small or
>> terribly large, comparatively. Don't you experience this yourself?
>>
>> The whole idea is just wrong. People browse the web in all kinds of
>> default font sizes, screen resolutions, and preferred browser width.
>> Your web page should flow naturally to whatever the user has.
>
> Someone mentioned in this thread that leaving all font sizes to default
> causes the text to be too small.

Is there a minimum font size to set?

> The rhetoric is convincing but I'm afraid it can't be properly
> translated into reality.
>
>
> Andrei


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/Jacob Carlborg


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