Stephen Black wrote:
> I think firefox is a great browser but I think that firefox can learn one
> thing from IE
> I think that Firefox and IE try successfully to make their browsers user
> friendly so that the
> lowest common denominator can user their browsers,
> but IE is streets ahead, because out of IE and Firefox IE is the only browser
> that doesn't assume
> that everyone has 20/20 vision.
> I can hear everybody saying ctr+ will increase font. True but this will
> distort
> the web page even to the extent that some links or information can become
> hidden
> but only IE will show the web page with a suitable font size and layed out in
> such a way that no information is hidden or
> missing.
>
> In fact the first thing I noticed when I first used linux was that the fonts
> and everything just seemed to be smaller.
>
Ah yes, this is because Firefox only has a text size increase/decrease
option, while IE7 has two: text size increase/decrease and zoom.
The text size increase/decrease simply adjusts the text size. If the
site specifies its layout in pixels (e.g. in CSS: #nav { width: 100px;
}) the layout will not adjust with the text; just the text will get bigger.
If the site specifies widths in em's (quite rare) (e.g. in CSS: #nav {
width: 10em; }) the layout will scale when increasing the text size.
IE7's zoom feature works differently. It scales up the layout
regardless. It even scales images, and it works really nicely. The
advantage is that the layout (almost) never screws up when you zoom in.
It works more like you'd expect: like a magnifying glass.
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