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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 10, 2006 6:20PM

Malcolm Wotton wrote:

> But they're not :(

So pressure needs to be applied to browser manufacturers. We're getting
WCAG 2.0 and ATAG 2.0 ... where's UAAG 2.0? Why do web developers have
to shoulder the burden once again?

> remember that nearly all web
> standards were once innovations by software developers or site designers.
> While I am in favour of standards, I am also in favour of innovation, and it
> seems to me that this innovation (if implemented well) does not degrade the
> experience for anyone, if anything it draws attention to the fact that fonts
> can be resized.

Innovation? You call a workaround to compensate for bad browser UI (and,
at the time when text resize widgets first came out, a means to use
pixel based text sizes and let IE users resize them anyway) an innovation?

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