> In Firefox, press Ctrl-+ eight times. The page breaks, with > content overlapping and unreadable. > > In case you're wondering whether anybody would use such > extreme enlargement, the answer is yes, some people do. A > friend of mine with a severe visual impairment resulting from > diabetes needs at least that level of enlargement, and > accepts as a normal part of life that he has to scroll > horizontally. Your page would simply be unusable by him. > (Well, he'd have to switch over to his screen reader, but > that only currently works with IE, so he'd have to fire that > up, then paste the URL... you get the idea.) > > HTH, > > Nick. > -- > Nick Fitzsimons > http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
Just asking out of sleep-deprived curiosity, and because the issue has been raised with regard to my own site...what do you consider "breaking"? I went to your site and pressed ctrl + eight times and while I don't get scrollbars, the text is so large that it becomes one word to a line and five words to a screen. I did NOT do this so I could come here and call you a hypocrit, I was honestly just curious and the link to your site (in your sig) was the first I clicked. Even Google (granted, not a site of CSS wizardry) is unreadable for me at zoom factor eight. So, now I'm wondering...how does one define "breakage"? IMHO, if we try to account for every conceivable variable, including browser inconsistencies, every aspect of accessibility and the like, one is left with a completely unstyled page. In web design, as in life, one must take risks and in so doing, runs the risk of failure. The question I think is where the line of failure is drawn? --Bill |================================| | Bill Brown | | Webmaster, MacNimble.com | | http://www.macnimble.com | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Phone: 215-237-2037 | |================================| ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
