Re: [parisc-linux] website

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:33:28AM -0800, Stan Sieler wrote:
> The key, probably the most important thing in web page design, is to
> *NOT* override the user's font defaults.  Web pages with font sizes, colors, &
> styles are simply evil.  There are pages I can no longer read with Netscape,
> because the @#$%^ web designer went out of their way to choose a small
> font...and that's *real* small on a 1600x1200 display!  MSIE let's me 
> go to Tools/Internet Options/Accessibility and say:
> 
>    ignore font colors on page
>    ignore font size on page
> 
> ...which is simply wonderful.

Netscape has a simlar thing; however it ignore this preference when
rendering tables.  I went and checked out the mozilla classic codebase
once and saw exactly how to fix it, but they'd already forked mozilla
seamonkey at that point, so i didn't bother.

> Remember, the three most important things to consider when
> designing a web page are: content, content, and content.
> Look / feel / wow isn't in the top three!

i couldn't agree more.

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