- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:18:11 +0000
- To: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "public-css-testsuite@w3.org" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
[François REMY:] > > Hi all, > > This is just a remainder that some tests I wrote during Test The Web > Forward work fine when running in 100% zoom but fails when the browser is > set to other zooms values. This is because, sometimes, the browser uses > real window/OS units instead of zoomed units, something which is causing > issues. > > I think it may be important for browser implementers to test their browser > in real "zoom conditions" and check that the result of the test is the > same as what they would obtain by scaling down the image from the 'zoom- > expanded' resolution (or, at least, by running the reference test in the > same zoom conditions). > > Browser zoom is really useful on small devices (to adapt for a small > screen a desktop site), and on hi-res desktop displays to accomodate small > text and wasted space (some browsers have settings to load page zoomed-in > by default in this case) so this is important to make sure there's no > implementation bug due to zoom. > These may not always be bugs; optical zoom should not break a testcase but there are different ways browser zoom pages which may impact a page or testcase.
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