Q about text sizing in browsers.

[Mike Barnard]

That's because CTRL+ in IE7 is page zoom, not text zoom. If you change
IE's text size from the View menu, you get text zoom instead. IE6 has no
page zoom, only text zoom.

I do this a lot....

DOH!

You make it sound like that's a bad thing. I loathe horizontal
scrolling, so prefer text zoom to page zoom, as do a lot of other people.

Not a bad thing or good. Just one of a range of options to make a
page viewable by thos who have problems.

It's interesting to talk about making pages look better for the
visually impaired (VI), but is there anyone reading this group who IS
VI themselves? It would be interesting to hear thier take.

Why should such a thing be universal? You should be cheering that users
have a choice in such things.

If I drive a car I know I steer with my hands, control speed with my
feet and the radio is usually somewhere in the middle. If I pressed
the radio controls and the car went faster it would confuse me. (Not
difficult). Why can't all browser controls be generally similar? Maybe
another standard. It doesn't mean they have to be boring, just that
one can change from a Firefox Ferrari to an IE Yugo and still make it
do what is expected when certain keys are pressed.

I'll get my coat. It's the British Standard grey one somewhere in
among the other British Standard grey ones.

 

[Mike Barnard]

I think it would be dreadful if they did because we would then lose
choices to suit ourselves at different times. Variety is the fruit of
experimentation and innovation. It would be a dull world that would
satisfy only some dreary people. Trust me, Mike, you would not like it.

I like most things, except brussels sprouts and politicians.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

It's interesting to talk about making pages look better for the
visually impaired (VI), but is there anyone reading this group who IS
VI themselves? It would be interesting to hear thier take.

Chaddy from AU is VI, and pops in occasionally. He's a student at a Uni
somewhere Down Under.

 

[Bergamot]

Why can't all browser controls be generally similar? Maybe
another standard.

Bad idea. The average user only has 1 browser, so it matters not to them
what other browsers do.

It doesn't mean they have to be boring, just that
one can change from a Firefox Ferrari to an IE Yugo and still make it
do what is expected when certain keys are pressed.

I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck with the inferior IE controls, and
that's what we'd end up with because it's the lowest common denominator,
and very slow to change.

If you're going to test in multiple browsers, you'll just have to get
used to it.

 

[Neredbojias]

I have a Flash Fetish too?????

Don't play the innocent with me. I did a search of alt.html archives for
the world "Flash" and your name came up 43,267 times...

 

[Travis Newbury]

Don't play the innocent with me. I did a search of alt.html archives for
the world "Flash" and your name came up 43,267 times...

Yea but 43263 of those times it was referenced from
alt.exhibition......

 

[Neredbojias]

Yea but 43263 of those times it was referenced from
alt.exhibition......

Well I thought I was being discreet in not mentioning that because you
have, uh, little to be proud of.

 

[Travis Newbury]

Well I thought I was being discreet in not mentioning that because you
have, uh, little to be proud of.

Are you making penis size jokes...

 

[Mike Barnard]

Are you making penis size jokes...

<opens popcorn, waits 'n watches for the next act to start!>

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

<opens popcorn, waits 'n watches for the next act to start!>

Don't find "reality" TV that amusing...

 

[Neredbojias]

Are you making penis size jokes...

Penis size is never a joke but it can be a tragedy...