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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Jan 11, 2006 8:50AM

> Let's not forget that a font resizing widget only comes into
> consideration if your type is not big enough.

Not necessarily true. I often have to downsize fonts to make it more
readable for myself. Granted, that is less likely than having fonts too
small.

Even so, until browser manfucturers agree on sane default sizes,
designers agree on sane page sizes, browsers agree to make font resizing
more intuitive, and users start understanding and wanting to tweak their
own browser preferences, and operating system developers begin making
screen rendering resolution dependant, we're going to have this issue of
not being able to please everyone with one font size solution.

> So why not
> solve that problem, it is so much easier.

Because it isn't. ;o)

-Darrel