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And yet... there are situations where it would be nice to have a font display at a particular size. A good example is the e-book display of a table. If the font size is known (or controlled) at the time of development, the developer can make the table display correctly for the most common screen widths.
My opinion is to rethink the necessity of the table, or at the very least, tightly control the width of the table elements and number of columns.
Where a table is absolutely necessary, I've had good results with converting the table to an image. If the resulting img (width=100%) is illegible in the width of the display of the smallest anticipated screen size, then rethinking the design of the table is also absolutely necessary. If it is legible, it is a good, if not perfect, solution.
So in a nutshell, if you find yourself thinking it necessary to screw with the user-defined font size (or any other user setting), step back and see if there is a more universal, device/user independent solution that will achieve the same result.
Last edited by Rob Lister; 03-01-2012 at 08:49 AM.
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