On 2008/02/01 20:58 (GMT+0100) Nicolas Mailhot apparently typed: > Le vendredi 01 février 2008 à 14:14 -0500, Felix Miata a écrit : >> It's the other way around. Web deziners almost univerally impose smaller than >> default text. > Web designers know that it's easier to sell web sites with small text. Indeed, it's hard to tell what's wrong with a page that can't be read, other than it can't be read. The morass of clueless deeziners don't use web pages, so they don't need to read them. > Small text looks good on screenshots printed on glossy paper. It's > terrible on computer screens, but web design is contracted to people > that went through art schools that emphasized paper media, and static > photoshopped look-alikes. They don't care about screen media. They don't > care about usability. They don't care about the text - it's just part of > the art. And small text looks "serious". Are for art's sake. It's amazing how the commissioners of that art can be so clueless of the lack of value of the results. > Entities that commission web sites always have the suspicion their > content is not that interesting, so looking good is better than having > large readable text you'll have to fill in later. Indeed, http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-livescribe1.jpg should show anyone with an understanding of the web how useless good looks can be. Only time will tell whether attempting to submit an explanation of the problem to the owner of that page will even produce an acknowledgment, much less a resulting improvement. -- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
