Ce Ce wrote:
> What I am asking is that ideally -- in the past -- we've developed
> our web pages with CSS to expand both horizontally and vertically so
> that when someone chose a larger font size the page would expand
> accordingly. Now that browsers have the ability to "page" zoom
> (rather than just text zoom) is the importance of horizontal and
> vertical expansion a moot point?
Depends on what a design is supposed to expand in relation to.
I've always thought it was best if designs adjusted to the environment,
and the most critical variable is still the width of the browser-window.
The "em-based zooming" you're referring to can be made to work well if
it isn't locked to font-size, but most existing versions are locked to
font-size and have therefore never worked well and never will -
regardless of whether there are changes made to the environment or not.
Font-resizing and page-zooming are minor, but important, variables that
any design should just be able to take without causing overflow of the
window to such a degree that they become unusable - too early. What's
"too early" is up to each designer to decide, and each end-user to
complain about.
FWIW: my preferred browser has had "page-zoom" for so many years that it
has become second nature both to use the feature and take it into
account while designing. So, nothing has really changed for the last 8
years or so.
As an end-user I usually rely on 'minimum font size', in my preferred
and all other major browsers except IE, to make content accessible/
readable though. Sites that misbehaves - like those with "zoom pages"
most often do, get a dose of "fit-to-width" to break their "zoom-feature".
regards
Georg
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