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Op Sat, 05 May 2007 15:00:32 +0200 schreef Steve at fivetrees :

I consider it a Good Thing(TM) if good code is able to render differently. It means that the browser is taking decisions based upon the user's default font face, colour and size as well as the size of the page, whether that be a printed page or a raster screen page.

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Boudewijn Dijkstra
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Point very much taken. The W3C Accessibility Guidelines make it very clear that the site's CSS is really only a suggestion, and the user should be able to totally override it - for instance to provide high-contrast text in a large font for a visually-impaired user. At the very least, the user should be able to control text size - if s/he can't, this is a Bad Thing(tm).

Of course, this also means that the X/HTML should be properly structured: heading tags, for instance, should only be used for headings. (I've seen them used too often for emphasis.) All of which means Good Code.

And yes, a good site should adapt gracefully to the browser environment (platform, resolution, overriden font sizes/colours). This point seems to be lost on the graphics designers who infest the PR agencies used by the corporates, who have *still* yet to grasp the fact that the web is a different medium from paper.

Steve

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