Goodbye IE6 and goodbye Font Scaling
Last week it occured to me that probably along with saying goodbye to IE6 we also can say goodbye to worrying about what happens with the page layout when fonts get scaled up by the user.
Firefox and IE7 have both a good zooming button in the right lower corner of the browser. This way of zooming gives a much better user experience then just scaling the fonts. When you come to think of it from a users perspective it seems pretty strange to just only scale the texts on a page and leave the rest as it is.
The only problem is that in my experience elderly (who use font scaling the most) don't tend to use the most modern equipment. They mostly seem quite content (even proud) with their 5 year old PC still in working order. So we might have to wait a little while.
Firefox and IE7 have both a good zooming button in the right lower corner of the browser. This way of zooming gives a much better user experience then just scaling the fonts. When you come to think of it from a users perspective it seems pretty strange to just only scale the texts on a page and leave the rest as it is.
The only problem is that in my experience elderly (who use font scaling the most) don't tend to use the most modern equipment. They mostly seem quite content (even proud) with their 5 year old PC still in working order. So we might have to wait a little while.
Labels: font scaling, IE6, zoom
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