On Wed, 2 May 2007, Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
It is true that resizing the text on its own can alter the layout and flow of
the page. I know that Opera (available on x86 Linux, Windows, and Mac OS)
enlarges images along with the text to maintain layout. I have read that
Firefox will soon gain this functionality once it better integrates Cairo.
> In fact the first thing I noticed when I first used linux was that the
> fonts and everything just seemed to be smaller.
Font sizes can be adjusted, and in fact you have far greater control over
desktop and application fonts than you have in Windows XP (I haven't looked
into Vista yet). Altering DPI settings would help as well.
There are some great accessibility tools in Linux, including screen
magnifiers.
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"The team was unable to reduce the size of the [Windows] image below 900MB...
By comparison, the equivalent FreeBSD image size is a few tens of MB."
- Microsoft, 'Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows', 2000-22-08
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