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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 8 Jul 2012

      Fixing things – Breaking Things http://www.breakingthin.gs/2012-07-08-fixing-things.html …

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    2. Vasilis‏ @vasilis 8 Jul 2012
      Replying to @aral

      @aral what does font-size: 0.8px; do exactly? Shouldn’t that be font-size: 0.8em/rem? Or is it a clever trick I never heard of before?

      4 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
      Replying to @vasilis

      @vasilis …just by changing the root em value. So setting it to 0.8px makes the whole thing shrink a bit.) Hth! :)

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Vasilis‏ @vasilis 9 Jul 2012
      Replying to @aral

      @aral I usually don't really care about exact font-sizes, as long as they are in proportion.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Eric Eggert‏ @yatil 9 Jul 2012
      Replying to @vasilis

      @vasilis And you can’t care about exact font sizes, as, on the web, the user is in power! /cc @aral

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
      Replying to @yatil

      @yatil I believe you can do both – the user being in power and empowering the user aren't always the same thing. +@vasilis

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Eric Eggert‏ @yatil 9 Jul 2012
      Replying to @aral

      @aral It takes a split second more to calculate font sizes on a 16px basis, but makes your site accessible again. /cc @vasilis

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
      Replying to @yatil

      @yatil I don't understand how my site isn't accessible currently. Surely it's your user rule that's a personal preference?+@vasilis

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Eric Eggert‏ @yatil 9 Jul 2012
      Replying to @aral

      @aral Of course, it’s your choice to value your dev experience more than the experience of your readers. /cc @vasilis

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
      Replying to @yatil

      @yatil What I want to understand is how many of my readers will be affected. If it's one person in Germany… :) +@vasilis

      3:33 AM - 9 Jul 2012
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        2. Eric Eggert‏ @yatil 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @aral

          @aral Increasing the font size is one of the most common tasks that people with disabilities do, even disabled web designers. /cc @vasilis

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @yatil

          @yatil And yet this doesn't stop people from increasing the font size but apparently affects the specific rule you have set. +@vasilis

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Eric Eggert‏ @yatil 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @aral

          @aral I think I will put that onto my ever growing “articles that need to be written” pile, twitter isn’t the right place :-) /cc @vasilis

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @yatil

          @yatil Cool, look forward to reading it. I'll document my thoughts too; think it's too nice a workflow to pass up. :) +@vasilis

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Vasilis‏ @vasilis 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @aral

          @aral @yatil Setting a minimum font-size is actually a pretty common browser pref. The clever 1px idea really breaks your site.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @vasilis

          @vasilis @yatil Among whom, though :) Us geeks? And perhaps that minimum font size setting is incorrectly implemented (it was pre-rem).

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Vasilis‏ @vasilis 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @aral

          @aral Heh, isn't your site targeted at geeks (-:

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        9. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @vasilis

          @vasilis lol, you might have a point :P

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        10. End of conversation
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        2. Eric Eggert‏ @yatil 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @aral

          @aral It’s an accessibility principle. Many people without perfect eyes use those settings, sometime user stylesheets. /cc @vasilis

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @yatil

          @yatil So now that we have rems, shouldn't those rules be updated and be more intelligent? +@vasilis

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Eric Eggert‏ @yatil 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @aral

          @aral I use SASS to ease development, it gives me an easy way to respect standard behavior. /cc @vasilis

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        1. Vasilis‏ @vasilis 9 Jul 2012
          Replying to @aral

          @aral @yatil The thing is that it's not very hard to fix. You could use 10px instead of 1px and things would look much better probably

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