Thanks Georg for such a thoughtful answer. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ce Ce wrote: > >> What I am asking is that ideally -- in the past -- we've developed our web >> pages with CSS to expand both horizontally and vertically so that when >> someone chose a larger font size the page would expand accordingly. Now that >> browsers have the ability to "page" zoom (rather than just text zoom) is the >> importance of horizontal and vertical expansion a moot point? >> > > Depends on what a design is supposed to expand in relation to. > I've always thought it was best if designs adjusted to the environment, > and the most critical variable is still the width of the browser-window. > > The "em-based zooming" you're referring to can be made to work well if > it isn't locked to font-size, but most existing versions are locked to > font-size and have therefore never worked well and never will - > regardless of whether there are changes made to the environment or not. > > Font-resizing and page-zooming are minor, but important, variables that > any design should just be able to take without causing overflow of the > window to such a degree that they become unusable - too early. What's > "too early" is up to each designer to decide, and each end-user to > complain about. > > > FWIW: my preferred browser has had "page-zoom" for so many years that it > has become second nature both to use the feature and take it into > account while designing. So, nothing has really changed for the last 8 > years or so. > As an end-user I usually rely on 'minimum font size', in my preferred > and all other major browsers except IE, to make content accessible/ > readable though. Sites that misbehaves - like those with "zoom pages" > most often do, get a dose of "fit-to-width" to break their "zoom-feature". > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
