Thanks to all for the great comments and ideas. I especially appreciate
Roger's low-vision perspective (I'm beginning to belong to that club, as
well), his development guidelines (70 - 150%) and the info on "zoom".
My judgements regarding which technique to use to scale images to
text-size wou
Alex Leonard wrote:
One thing that occured to me was that if you were going to use a
stylesheet switcher to increase the font size of the site, you could
also make your header image a different bkg image in each style sheet,
allowing you to specifically scale an image to fit.
Not sure i'm makin
Here is an idea that has actually been scrapped now, but i was
interested in the results anyway
http://www.pixelapes.com/pixelapes_test/test8/
the image scaling works quite well, not the best quality, but alright.
One of the problems seems to be that IE sometimes misinterprets this and
initially
Hi Janie,
If you are talking about small(ish) graphics, you can produce the
graphic twice the size it should be, then specify the graphic dimensions
as 50%, so that when someone resizes, you've got some way to go to get
to the 'real' size, then a bit more until it breaks up, or pixelates, or
Janie Hadsel wrote:
> FF and Netscape users can resize text to much larger/smaller proportions
> using Cntrl+ + or - keystrokes, but that begs the question: "Just how much
> resizing should we cater to when working with ems?" I think I'm going to
> stick with my absolutely-sized image font heade
On 8/7/05, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"The quality issues you've observed are the downside of this technique,
although the quality on your test page was better than I expected when I
looked at it in firefox. [...] Preparing multiple images is so much work
I've never pursued this i
Janie,
On 8/7/05, Janie Hadsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6Aug2005, Roger wrote:
> "You can size an img element using em or % just like any other element."
>
> Hi Roger and J,
>
> I did some testing and put together the following sample page using em:
> http://www.hadsel-design.com/C
This is a subject which has been intriguing me for sometime. In particular,
the use of background images or banners on a page where it seems you're
restricted to 800 x 600 designs. I would love to be able to create my
headers and images suitable for 1024 x 768 so that they don't create
horizontal
J,
On 8/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Per Felix's suggestion a few days ago, I have been switching the current
> style sheets for my in-progress work to relative font sizes. Naturally,
> this has led to switching most other elements to relative sizing, so that
> they int
