On 19.09.2010 09:02, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: --- Original Message ---
> Jay Garcia wrote: > >> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >>> Jay Garcia wrote: >>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >>>>> Jay Garcia wrote: >>>>>> Using FF 3.6.10 here and looking at your screen shot I don't see >>>>>> the same thing(s), namely the topmost bar showing "GV SHm L/D" >>>>>> etc. The paragraph under the Baby brings miners ....,etc. isn't >>>>>> cut off either. >>>>>> >>>>>> So what's the deal with what you see and I don't? Mine looks ok >>>>>> to me. >>>>> >>>>> Go about two Control-Pluses and see what happens to the text under >>>>> the Baby (well, it's a different article now, but same thing >>>>> happens). Assuming you have zoom set to _text_only_. The text >>>>> increases in size but not the containing box. This is another >>>>> webmaster/author fault for eschewing fluidity. Not a browser >>>>> problem. >>>> >>>> Even tho it's a new article using ctrl+mouse wheel or crtl+ many >>>> times causes the page to increase in size quite fluidly, no >>>> problems. Perhaps it was just that particular article? >>> >>> Menu: View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only >>> which I mentioned several times. Does "Zoom Text Only" have a >>> checkmark next to it? If not, click on it to check it, and go look >>> for another article with a long (three lines?) description. >> >> Yah, missed that for whatever reason. Setting to text-only exhibits >> the problem IF it's really a problem since there are many >> graphics/images on the page. In a text-only environment you really >> don't need that function anyways so why use it to begin with? If text >> is too small on a web page I just use ctrl+mouse wheel anyway. Why >> would you need text-only .. examples? > > Coupla reasons I see for using text-only zoom: > > 1) you're using, say, a 1000px browser window. Zooming _all_ increases > the actual width of the page, so you have to utilize the horizontal > scrollbar. I can go along with that but geeze, if you have to size the text and scrollbars appear then you must need coke-bottle-glasses. > 2) some images (low-res) do not zoom well and become pixelated or > distorted. But not interested in zooming images, that can be done with other features/functions, etc. > 3) what's the main reason for wanting to zoom in the first place? Web > author's tiny text that your eyes can't read. Not saying that it is a useless feature globally but I have no use for it ... so far. :-) Insofar as pages like the CNN page(s) where text-only sizing is needed then you have to go with the default re-size. I don't think anybody is going to convince CNN programmers otherwise. -- *Jay Garcia - Netscape/Flock Champion* www.ufaq.org Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Flock - Thunderbird _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
