Posted by Bergamot on 10/10/07 04:18

SpaceGirl wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>
>> http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/examples/
>
>> Zoom is not equal to
>> increasing the font. If the view port is small you find yourself
>> up-down-right-left jocking around a peep hole.
>
> Same question: PDF? Word documents? Excel documents? Movie files?

I think Mr Little is right here. That little slider bar on the FP sample
is just a kewl gimmick. It doesn't make the content more usable. As far
as usability goes, zoom generally sucks compared to actual text enlargement.

SpaceGirl, I don't think you'll ever really comprehend the issue until
you find yourself in the situation where these sites cause you the same
kind of eye strain they give us. You haven't experienced the problem
yourself so you can't understand how bad it really is. And it *is* bad.

It's great you get such enjoyment out of all these "rich" content sites.
However, I don't think it's as high on everybody's list as you say. The
younger crowd apparently needs constant stimulation to keep their
attention but not everyone falls into that group.

>> 4) In the zooming process I do not see the text as clearly as the
>> regular text of the surrounding HTML. I appears like a bit mapped image
>> of a page....
>
> IYO I guess. It looks smooth to me.

I imagine the particular display unit and O/S has something to do with
that. You've no doubt got a high-end graphic display. Not all of us are
so lucky.

>>> Also, once again, Flash IS ACCESSIBLE. It can be screen read, it
>>> supports CSS

Flash may now support author-defined CSS, but that's not really
impressive. If it ever gets to the point where I can set my own minimum
font-size, I'll stop trashing it.

--
Berg

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