I really think you're arguing from a place of false equivalency here.
I don't want every web site everywhere to use the web standards and stop artificially smallifying the font, I require it. I'm not getting what I need, when I use the Tropo site scheme.
But because it's become a design trend to make fonts smaller than the standard, users have developed an aesthetic expectation that smaller than the web standards suggest looks 'right' or is 'cool', or in really irritating terms, only sites for old foggies have 'big' font.
.85 is not a compromise I can live with, and I'm hard pressed to imagine how 1em would be something someone could not live with. I don't get the luxury of compromise here, I get to spend my web-surfing time control +ing and -ing as I go from my 1em journal to smallified sites and back to sites that follow the web standards. The more sites that follow the standard, the less of this crap I have to do. The less anyone has to do, because they can just set their own defaults to suit everywhere, or at least most everyhere.
So, I'm sorry, but I don't actually care about the irritation of people who want small fonts and complain loudly when they don't get them. And I know that sounds cranky, cuz it is, and that's why I linked to that discussion where people much nicer than I am hashed this out already.
Apologies for the teal deer, but I wanted to speak to the point in general as much as to you particular compromise argument.
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I don't want every web site everywhere to use the web standards and stop artificially smallifying the font, I require it. I'm not getting what I need, when I use the Tropo site scheme.
But because it's become a design trend to make fonts smaller than the standard, users have developed an aesthetic expectation that smaller than the web standards suggest looks 'right' or is 'cool', or in really irritating terms, only sites for old foggies have 'big' font.
.85 is not a compromise I can live with, and I'm hard pressed to imagine how 1em would be something someone could not live with. I don't get the luxury of compromise here, I get to spend my web-surfing time control +ing and -ing as I go from my 1em journal to smallified sites and back to sites that follow the web standards. The more sites that follow the standard, the less of this crap I have to do. The less anyone has to do, because they can just set their own defaults to suit everywhere, or at least most everyhere.
So, I'm sorry, but I don't actually care about the irritation of people who want small fonts and complain loudly when they don't get them. And I know that sounds cranky, cuz it is, and that's why I linked to that discussion where people much nicer than I am hashed this out already.
Apologies for the teal deer, but I wanted to speak to the point in general as much as to you particular compromise argument.