- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:43:31 +0200
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- CC: www-style CSS <www-style@w3.org>
David Woolley wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> >> Actually, most implementations (if not at all at this point) for full >> page zoom do so in a way that does not create the need for horizontal >> scrolling. > > That sounds like Firefox's font enlarge facility, not a whole page zoom. > That, and their minimum font size option, do break when people use > absolute units. For example, http://www.tfl.gov.uk/. This one was even > worse when they were doing a usability survey, as simply overriding > designer font sizes on IE's Accesibility dialogue pushed the links > outside of their overflow none popup, so I couldn't complain about the > messed up layout without restoring the smaller than default fonts. > Indeed, but the loss of functionality arose through idiotic use of overflow:none rather than through the use of absolute units. Using overflow:auto instead would have been more appropriate, and would still result in a block formatting context (if that was the author's intention, explicitly or otherwise). The issue then comes back to the desirability of scrolling. Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net
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