Posted by Bergamot on 08/01/07 15:54

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:21:25 -0500, Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Travis Newbury wrote:
>>>
>>> the zoom feature in Flash is weak at
>>> best.
>>
>>If Adobe put some amount of control in the user's hands over the area of
>>zoom or the degree of zoom, it might actually be a useful feature.
>
> ...um, obviously you haven't ever actually used it

Um, actually yes I have used it, or at least tried. Perhaps you haven't?

> You can zoom in and out to various degrees

How do I tell it to zoom in 20%, 50%, or as large as possible and still
stay within the confines of the browser viewport? Where are the controls
for anything like that?

> and once zoomed in
> you can click and drag the zoomed screen around with the hand icon.

Thank you, you just made my point. ;)

Have you ever been forced to read content by panning? It is one of the
worst ways to make someone use a site. Horizontal scrolling on a HTML
page is bad enough, but panning is a lot worse.

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Berg

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