Re: static virtual is a keyhole?

Scott Meyers wrote:
> It's
> a different kind of gratuitious constraint, one arising from a
> different kind of flawed thinking.  One could argue that it's use of
> a constant (the font size) instead of a variable, but the underlying
> conceptual flaw is quite different: it's that the web page designer
> didn't think that users should have any control over font size.  The
> underlying conceptual problem is that of a missing feature, not
> imposition of a keyhole-like constraint. So though it's possible to
> cast fixed-size fonts on web pages into the mold of a keyhole, I
> think it dilutes the meaning of a keyhole, hence its usefulness.

I think this thinking is not exactly right.  Why?  Because unless one fixes
the font size of a Web page the browser agents are able to change the font
size!  So it is not the case of "I would need to work a lot to enable it".
On the contrary.

White Wolf