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As a web designer, I despair of users upping the font size and screwing up the words-per-line. Which is why I like Safari's iOS-like pinch-zoom feature. I do wish all browsers would move in that direction and in the end disallow users to arbitrarily up font sizes.

That said, crazygringo's point is valid insofar as people do up their font sizes as a matter of course.




Oh I take great pleasure in telling you then that I force all my fonts to Century Schoolbook.

Seriously, where do web "designers" get off these days? The web is not paper.


Try setting your text container dimensions in em then.


Yes. As soon as you define everything in em these problems completely cease to exist.


Yes, those silly people with bad vision.


He did not say that he wishes for people not to be able to make things larger.


Zoom good, font size increasing bad.


In your opinion.

Most users probably don't want to spend their life panning around a page to see what's going on.




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