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Posted by Stephen Poley on 05/30/06 17:46
On Sun, 28 May 2006 22:46:01 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
<flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Sun, 28 May 2006, Stephen Poley wrote:
>
>> In fact I've just tried out the BBC site in IE: it's a bit weird.
>> The index pages and side-bars seem to have fixed size text, but the
>> main article text and some other components are resizable.
>
>Could you be more specific about where you saw that? When I look at
>www.bbc.co.uk, the texts, where they are sized at all, seem to be
>sized in em units, which is good, and IE seems happy to re-size them
>at my choice. My complaint would be that it's refusing to fit in the
>window width that I gave it, and forcing a left/right scroll bar,
>without any evident content-related need to.
>
>On the other hand news.bbc.co.uk seems to do all(?) of its text sizing
>in px units, with the expected negative consequences in IE. Of course
>that too refuses to fit in my chosen window width...
Well, in for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5022524.stm and
all the other similar article pages I've checked, the main article text
resizes, but the sidebars do not. The column width is fixed even where
the text resizes. And two bars at the top of the page also resize,
somewhat incongruously. Altogether it looks like a muddle, not a design.
--
Stephen Poley
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