Pet Peeve #438:
People who use style sheets to set fixed pixel sizes for their fonts. Gee, that 11 pixel high font might look great on your 800×600 CRT screen, but I can barely see it on my 1400×1050 LCD screen. Making it gray doesn’t help — gray fonts on a white background frequently just disappear on a backlit LCD display, unless you’re at the right angle.
I picked on Missy, but I could have pointed out a bazillion other sites with the same problem, especially weblogs. C’mon, people — fixed font sizes are so 1999. If you use relative sizes, I can enlarge (or shrink) the fonts to something that’s comfortable in my computing environment.
Had I know that an LCD panel is tied to a specific resolution, I wouldn’t have gotten the high end screen. Sure DVD’s look nifty, but most text is tiny tiny tiny. It hurts my eyes.