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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 02/06/06 21:24
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, David Dorward wrote:
> IE is the only browser that doesn't let user's easily resize the
> text on the page when the author uses a unit that isn't relative to
> the default font size.
I'd say that the CSS specification is quite clear on that, and MSIE -
curiously - is the only browser trying to conform to specs. (It can't
get it right, due to the lack of calibrated displays, but that's a
different affair).
The user should be able to *overrule* the CSS sizing, of course (my
criticism of IE is that it makes it too difficult for users to do
that, although there's doubtless a bookmarklet out there that will do
the trick), just as the user can overrule any other aspect of CSS
(colours, for example); but if the author specifies an absolute
length, then it's quite wrong for a browser to zoom that to an
arbitrary size - the CSS spec is quite clear, it should be possible to
put a ruler against it and measure it exactly, unless and until the
user overrules the author's misguided attempt to impose absolute
units.
> The solution is to fix the design so that the height of the
> container increases with the font size.
Sure.
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