Jay Garcia wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > [biggasnip] >> 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.
Case: a friend's mother, about 90 years old, uses a 24" CRT set at 800x600 because she loves to surf and to chat with great-grandchildren, and has rather serious vision problems. I can read it from the other side of the room. If she need to zoom the text and was set to zoom all, she'd have scrollbars. Granted, this is an extreme case, but there is no reason to exclude her from her activities. My glasses are rather normal for a guy soon to be a septuagenarian. >> 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. Well, sure, but not every average surfer knows about them. >> 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. :-) Wait until you're a 90+ great-grandmother! > 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. It's difficult to convince any web author of his/her shortcomings. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
