RE: UA controlling display of tooltip

From: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:25:59 -0500 To: WAU-ua <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org> Message-id: <HDEAKIPKOHBCMDILOOPNEENCIJAB.jimallan@tsbvi.edu> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Friday, 17 January 2020 20:38:37 UTC

Jan Said:
> ...but since it doesn't mention whether this is "sufficient"...is it ok
> if the User Agent simply passes through the text scale settings of the
> OS (which IE7 on Windows does for tooltips)?

I think it is not sufficient. If the user changes (scales) the font size in
the UA it should effect all fonts related to the content. The user should
not have to go to the OS to change part of the rendered content.

Jim