To concur with your point from a somewhat different angle: > Your fonts and even colors could change. Webfonts are great and all til the idiot designer picks s

To concur with your point from a somewhat different angle: > Your fonts and even colors could change. Webfonts are great and all til the idiot designer picks some "nice" ultra-thin that, while probably looked real sweet on his/her fancy Retina Cinema Display, looks like ass on mine. A colleague made a comment: she's a Chinese speaker with great English. I'm an English speaker with pretty functional Chinese. "Why are the letters so small. I don't even want to look at it." This was a default setting. So we increased it to 16px. It was good. It is a pain reading in a script you're familiar with, but not intimately so you've read 1000s-10000s of thousands of words in it per day since childhood. Everyone in the office (in China) appreciated the change. Then I got the reverse shock, of a colleague releasing an internal website in all I can describe as thin font, grey, light blue background, and around 10px. Chinese characters at 10px are a pain. A massive pain. And I felt the pain that my colleague experienced. He: "Oh, I see. But it looks cool." Me: "Look at how everyone in the office [native Chinese readers] bends their neck when they read this site." This was an extreme difference, but also should be considered. If you're creating something for an international audience, accommodate those that may have grown up with a different script, and simply read differently. Not a different language - a different script.