Re: Fixed-width web pages - have some pity on designers!

At 12:04 PM 8/7/2003, Timothy Knox wrote:
>Sure. I saw the same behaviour with NS4.7 and Opera 7.11 under
>Linux.  Curiously, I don't see that behaviour myself under IE6.0
>for Windows.

This would be great grounds for a rant on web designers failing to produce
portable code, but since this is a book on keyholes, I want to maintain my
focus on keyholed layouts that are intentional.  For that purpose, I think
we have to generally assume that if something renders one way under
IE/Windows and some other way on a different platform, the intended
behavior is the one under IE/Windows. 

>However, that does lead me to the question: Does designing a web site
>for a give typeface/size combination, such that if a surfer (like myself)
>who winds the point size up a bit, to ease the strain on bad eyes, sees
>a profoundly ugly or mal-formed page qualify as a software keyhole? I suspect
>that while it is definitely lousy usability design, it is not a software
>keyhole.

I agree.

Scott