On 06/06/30 21:43 (GMT+0200) Jan Brasna apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote:
>> Zoom functions are designed primarily as user defense mechanisms > Sorry Felix, but this is really nonsense. Necessary nonsense required as a result of virtually universal poor web page design. A web browser viewport is a naturally fluid and adaptable space that most designers refuse to or don't know to embrace. Ordinary users of pages that fully embrace fluid nature rarely find reason to try to change those pages via browser controls. Without the ubiquity of print pages hosted on the web the browser makers wouldn't have had motivation to provide zoom function. > It is made for what it should > do - making the whole site more legible/bigger if you need to, Exactly, and it wouldn't be necessary if most web pages were naturally fluid web designs rather than artificially constrained print designs hosted on the web. > with > keeping all the proportions correct when scaling all elements. Nowadays > there are still many raster elements on the pages that can't be sized in > text dimensions (what is by the way a bit weird if you think about it) > and it is *the task of the UA to arrange the output with the correct > ratios, be it higher DPI, small screen, enlarged page* etc. ... In case you've missed it, I've offered as example pages that have a grand total of 0 elements sized in px or absolute units. They work fine no matter your reasonable combination of viewport size and default text size or zoom level, reasonable being defined as comfortably long enough line lengths fitting in the available width of the viewport. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/indexx.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Sites/dlviolin.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/bbcSS.html Pages besides the above on http://www.cssliquid.com/ and elsewhere confirm artificial size constraints aren't necessary. Em is a proportional unit that works when it is permitted to. > Does it make sense? As long as I've been using them browsers have been capable of rendering images at whatever size the HTML (and later CSS) has dictated. That the quality of doing same may or not be desirable with deviations from intrinsic image size is an independant issue. -- "All have sinned & fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
