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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Jan 11, 2006 9:30AM

> > That isn't the case. Some people need a font far bigger
> than most of
> > us would be comfortable with.
>
> That still does not prove that there is a need for a font
> sizing widget on your site, if anything it proves that you
> should leave it to the browser to deal with that issue.

Except that browsers are stupid. They have no idea what font size I need
unless I tell them. And until people start figuring out that they should
tell their browser this information, the font resizing widget serves a
purpose.

> I had a bit of a discussion with Joe Clark over a while ago:
> having a "zoom text" stylesheet with very large fonts
> wouldn't really serve users who need large type, as they'd
> already have their system's default font size set to be large
> enough to be comfortable

True. But their computer might be sitting at home. Or maybe they don't
have one. Many folks might be accessing your site on the road at a hotel
kiosk, a library, at school, on a shared work machine, coffee shop,
cybercafe, friend's laptop, Mom's house, etc., etc.

-Darrel