[UPHPU] Adjusting Table

Velda Christensen velda at novapages.com
Fri Jul 27 14:47:42 MDT 2007


Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
>> Yup.  But you have to plan for the poor unfortunate people who still 
>> use IE. In fact now IE 7 I guess resizes the whole page, pictues and 
>> all, with the ctrl+ and - .  Kudos to MS for trying I guess :)
>
> On paragraphs of text, I would agree, giving the user the ability to 
> resize just the text is a nice convenience. Building a layout that 
> allows for the entire layout to be "zoomed" by increasing the font 
> size is (a) not worth the hassle, (b), not worth the design you'll 
> have to sacrifice to do so, and (c) just doesn't make sense. I 
> understand that most aren't "smart enough" to do so, but if you want 
> to zoom in, you should zoom in (whether on the browser or the OS 
> level) and not increase the font size. Take BYU's new home page. Cool… 
> it is completely fluid… but it is not much to look at and the 
> usability suffers tremendously.
I didn't think it was that big of a pain really.  I don't do it though 
if people don't want that as a feature.

-V


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