Scaling and Zooming

I have been thinking about how Web renderings could work across various
screen sizes, where I would appreciate your comments.

There seems to be two ways of doing things.

Zooming and "Scaling".

Zooming is like taking a magnifying glass to a PDF document. The writing
is bigger, but you have to pan around. Panning isn't so bad, but panning
horizontally is regarded at least by myself as no good. Good thing is
that it seems easier to implement.

"Scaling" is in inverted commas because I am not too sure how to define
it. This is where text size is resized in a Web browser. Text size
changes, as well as other elements in some sort of unpredictable flowing
model. Its more of an art form, a typographical thing. Good thing if
this works, if that you do not have to pan horizontally, left and right.
Bad thing is that it seems complex.

As far as I know, SVG type technologies are in the Zooming category.
HTML with CSS is in the "Scaling" category.

What does the w3-di prefer?

Received on Friday, 17 September 2004 09:45:36 UTC