designer wrote: > I joined this group a couple of weeks ago and already have learnt lots of > stuff. But, like all new folk to xhtml/css, I'm struggling to accept some of > it. I've used CSS for a couple of years now, but only recently have moved > to full CSS (no tables etc). The thing that worries me most is > accessibility - I love pixels as units of dimensions. In my > ignorance/innocence, I used to sit complacent with a design, thinking that > because I'd used pixels as my units it was safe from those people who wanted > to view 'text size largest' or whatever, and that the innate construction of > my site was safe. However, since I started to use Firefox (and Mozilla) I > see that my designs can be wrecked in seconds by someone zooming the text > size. (Which IE6 won't do). I love Firefox, but to my (learning) eye, this > text zoom is BAD! No, I'm not being inconsiderate to folk with visual
Bad for designs that don't allow for it, good for people on high res displays who can't read text 1/4 the size of their default, and for everyone else for whom access supercedes prettiness. > problems - Opera has a beautiful zoom feature which simply magnifies > everything and keeps the design intact, so isn't that the way browsers > should be going, instead of just acting on the text? Of course. > Clearly, the use of ems is just a nightmare, esp when you have several > images and have to guess what the em dimensions are, so what's wrong with > 'complete zoom' instead of 'text zoom'? Nothing, except it hasn't been implemented yet. The drivers apparently felt text zoom was better than no zoom, and that's where it stands now. As Mozilla is open source, you're welcome to fix the bug, which is marked helpwanted: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4821 > Let me stress, I'm <em>not </em> being arrogant or inconsiderate - I'm > learning. I don't grasp the reasoning behind this and I can't find anything > that explains the philosophy of this approach. So I'm asking the question. I haven't read that bug lately, but I imagine part of the problem is scaling up images doesn't work very well. Svg is supposed to change image scaling problems someday. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122092 In the meantime, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98971 might help. -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
