I am going to harp on this point again. And I'll even give an example of why you want to make your blog "size friendly" not a "size bitch". Here's another reason why you want to do this:
You don't know where and how I'm reading!!!
After reading Russ's blog about how he's running again and dieting, I finally got off my lazy developer ass and picked up some new free weights (I'm not a big machine fan having had my first real exercise experience being with free weights and apparently being a creature of habit). I now have a working but somewhat pathetic wi-fi system so I have wireless access up to my third floor where the exercise equipment is. So, how do I lift weights, you ask? With a laptop open and reading blogs while I do curls, etc. What I do is this:
- Position the laptop near my free weights on a table dedicated to this.
- Set my fonts to the largest possible i.e. View => Text Size => Largest
- Go to my blog.
- Run down my blog roll link by link accessing blogs.
- If the blog text comes up large enough to read from a distance, I read it.
- If not? I just backup and try the next.
So, while I somewhat applaud the position that Paolo takes that he's a designer and should be able to set his fonts however he chooses, I take the position that "I'm a reader and I'll read what I can see". And, as someone who not only has read the ADA, but also has built ADA compliant websites for use by disabled folk, I think it's (pun intended) shortsighted to assume that because you like 10 point Times Roman, everyone will. We're not talking about complex layouts here ... It's just words in a row going left to right, top to bottom. Keep your sidebar and design elements however you want them -- all I really care about is the text flow (most sidebar links aren't all that followed at least based on my off the cuff, simple ass research).
Coming tomorrow ... A list of "size friendly" blogs I read and "size bitch" blogs I skipped right over.
