On 19.09.2010 11:29, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: --- Original Message ---
> 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. We're in the same boat on both accounts. >>> 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. Built-in feature of FF. Remember seeing the wand with the + in the middle? > >>> 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! You mean I have to have a sex change too? My Mom is a 91 yo GGM and her prescription hasn't changed in over 20 years, still sharp. >> 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. > -- *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
