Nadav Har'El wrote:
Why is text size the only "problem"? Aren't you also bothered about the
user's ability to, for example, change the browser window's width? When
the user does this, the text lines get shorter and paragraphs may get
longer, causing images to look too small, or whatever.
If you use tables, you can avoid such things from happening. For
example, look at http://www.speedy.co.il/ or http://www.pazgal.com/ (my
websites). Resize the windows. The websites don't change, you only
have to scroll it if the window it too small.
I still don't understand how the page can be the same as the author saw it
if you allow something as basic as resizing the browser window. Instead of
being "the same", wouldn't it be better to give the author better control
of stating his intentions? For example, perhaps if HTML had an attribute
for images that make them "automatically resize" to fill a certain box,
that would make them behave as you want?
I think the HTML/CSS standard should also have an option of resizing
websites to the size of the window. So if you resize the window, images
and tables will resize automatically. It's possible with tables, but
not with images (as far as I know).
P.S. If you genuinely don't understand why Firefox's "text size" not ("zoom")
feature works the way it works, let me give you an explanation. On many (too
many) Web pages), the authors specify a very small font, which perhaps looks
good to them (20 year olds with a 30" display) but to many users the text is
too small to comfortably read; it doesn't have to be blind or nearly-blind
people - it could be ordinary people who sit somewhat farther from the screen,
or are just tired of reading pages upon pages of tiny text and want to see
it larger. BUT, they want the text to be enlarged, they have absolutely no
need for the graphics to grow: the bullets don't need to be larger circles,
the site's logo doesn't need to be larger, and pictures (say, in a news site)
don't need to be made larger and ugly (which is typically what happens when
you artificially enlarge an image). As I already said, my vision is relatively
normal, and I find myself at least once a week using Firefox's control-+
(text size) feature on some annoying site.
The behavior that you asked for (or at least, I understood you asked for)
doesn't make much sense to typical users like myself, and worse: while you
think it will make the site look better, the zooming of images might, I
think, actually make it look worse, with ugly pixelated auto-enlarged images.
Try to use Opera and see what I meant. Sometimes the website is built
in a way that the proportion between the text and the graphics is fixed.
If the proportion is changes, the website will break. I already wrote
about Google ads. Here's another example: enter
http://www.pazgal.com/contact/ , press control-+ a few times and see
what happens. Try it with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. See
what happens with each of them.
The problem is, Firefox ignores CSS text size when changing the default
text size. I understand some people like it, but some don't. I don't.
Best Regards,
Uri Even-Chen
Speedy Net
Raanana, Israel.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +972-9-7715013
Website: www.uri.co.il
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