new documentation format for std.algorithm

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

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.

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


Andrei