Al Sparber wrote: >>IMO however, that method will only work well if it is applied in >>such a >>way that those lines stay within the browser-window and don't >>provoke a >>horizontal scroll-bar, which is what you also are saying if I >>interpret >>you correctly. > > This is where I'm confused. If you attempt to keep "zoomed" text > inside the constraints of a brower's window width, then you suffer the > flaw I see in many liquid designs - where content scrunches up to one > word per line and/or overlaps adjacent columns.
It is probably possible to recognise Opera's method as user-friendly, and then afterwards be able to deem double axis scrollbars user-friendly, but it is far from anything I've learned on that subject. The usual main explanation of the case is that double scrollbars makes it hard to get a good idea about the available contend, and are confusing as to where to go first. You do not have those problems when testing your site in big fonts, as you've already seen it with medium font size! But let my granddad enter the site (he's the one who needs the big font, and might have it as default in his browser), and you'll see one user gone faster than you can visualise the content that he's missing off screen on the horizontal scrollbar. I'll definitely second Georg here, em scaling is best when used to keep content inside the window on at least one axis (and, just for "tradition keeps the customer"'s sake - make that the horizontal axis :-) ) Best regards Jesper Brunholm ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
