I wonder what a partially sighted user would thing of these 'improvements'. Would they be glad that now they can see images a little easier and the layout seems to break less or would they be annoyed at the sudden appearance of a horizontal scrollbar?
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, James Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latest versions of the 4 major browsers (IE, Opera, Safari and > Firefox) all do zooming. It is *relatively* safe to assume that Firefox, > Safari and Opera users will update their browsers on a regular basis as > these browsers all have to be sought out and downloaded initially. > > However IE6 still hangs around and doesn't support page zooming, so I > believe that you still have to check font resizing on layouts rather than > assuming that all users can zoom. Font resizing is also available on all > browsers so should be tested for anyway. > > That's my thought anyway. > > ------------------------------ > Are all browsers now using zooming to resize pages? > > I noticed FF2 wasn't using zooming but FF3 is and I know IE and Safari > already do it. > > Any background information in this? > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
