Designer wrote:
To me, the zoom feature of IE7 (or firefox, or Opera) means that you can resize a page constructed in pixels without hurting anyone. Doesn't it?
I find the zoom function to have very little practical application. It is essentially like taking a microscope to the screen and slowly panning accross it - the rendering is awful and even if this weren't the case, it's tiresome and callous.
The beauty of em-sizing (and even if IE's image resizing is nasty, I can still appreciate the inherent value of em-sized pics) is that you can make specific elements larger or smaller, while keeping certain elements of the layout intact - this is essential when it comes to keeping the body from taking up too much horizontal space.
I often reduce my default text size on the fly when looking at pseudo-minimalist big friendly 'web 2.0 design' sites, and I'm also accustomed to turning it up for a lot of news sites.
At its core, it accomodates the fact that different people have different reading habits - and to an extent larger images may be useful for the visually impaired. But the whole thing, just bigger? Not so nice.
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