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A comment on Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide). Parent comment

Re:Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (C... by orib on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @10:49AM (#346334)
What part of respecting a user's settings makes a website ugly?

If a website is properly designed, it should scale just fine no matter what the font size is. If you need a fixed pixel size for a font to make your design work, you're doing it wrong. And to top it off, a fixed pixel size requirement means it'll break anyways on different systems with different fonts, kerning and hinting options, and other settings.b

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Re:Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (C... by run4yourlives on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @11:53AM (#346399)
The part when user become users.

When you get right down to it, by the time you've accounted for every little preference you're asking websites to be text files, which kinda defeats the whole purpose of design.

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