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They must understand that user can (and should be able to) change (just the) font size, if not their designs are often useless.

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Useless might be a tad strong.

How many sites can you really change the font size? Unless of course you mean through the browser.

Why would they implement a feature that's in every browser anyway? They should just design the site so that changing the font size through the browser works.

Cause someone asks for it (or demands it)?

Buttons to change font sizes are anywhere in a browser's default chrome, therefore 99% of people don't know you can do it.

In general, I think it's dumb, but have been on the receiving end of "add font size buttons". No amount of "but you can just hit ctrl-+" does any good.

I believe his point was that a web design should be resilient to the fact that users can do this with their browsers. Among other things web specific I assume. That seemed pretty obvious to me anyways.

Useless is definitely too strong.

What's the percentage of users who manually change their font size? Is it the majority? Because if it's not, then I'd hardly call it "useless."

AMEN!

Death to adding those stupid "font size icons" to change to one of 2-3 predetermined sizes too!

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