Font sizes18th March 2008, 270 views Just trying to read this, and since it uses a tiny font (8.3pt I believe), I hit the font size button in Internet Explorer. No effect. Because it uses point sizing instead of percentages (for example), Internet Explorer won't resize it. Eg: Point sized text Pixel sized text Percentage sized text Use your browser to resize the text and the red text will remain the same size (10pt / 10px), whereas the green text (using percentages) will change accordingly.In summary, if you're concerned at all about usability then use a relative font sizing, eg percentages. Top 10 referrering pages
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Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 19th March 2008 12:37 > Here is what I have observed.
Quote> > IE - Text, Images, Scrollbars resize > (full page zoom). Really? Guess it must have been "fixed" for IE7. > The zoom is nice, but why on earth are the > scroll bars included? I suppose if you have difficulty seeing text then you probably would also have difficulty seeing/using the scrollbars. They're not exactly huge. > Overall, I think Opera performs the best in > this little test as I like the idea of a zoom > more than just bigger letters. Agreed, but I really don't get on with Opera. In fact the only reason I have it (and FireFox) installed is for testing purposes.
Author: Richard Quadling
Posted: 19th March 2008 13:03 Richard Heyes:
Quote> In fact the only reason I have it (and FireFox) > installed is for testing purposes. I use FireFox with Firebug as my main development. Use IEView/IETab for testing with IE and those sites which REALLY don't understand anything but IE. Use Safari/Opera for testing only. I like FireFox because with Adblockplus and noscript, I feel I'm pretty secure and I am in control. With IE, I just don't feel I am. Especially as WSUS seems to keep resetting our internet and intranet zones. Richard.
Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 19th March 2008 13:15 > I like FireFox because with Adblockplus and
Quote> noscript, I feel I'm pretty secure and I am in > control. With IE, I just don't feel I am. > Especially as WSUS seems to keep resetting our > internet and intranet zones. Why, what sort of sites do you frequent? :-)
Author: Richard Quadling
Posted: 19th March 2008 16:18 Richard Heyes:
Quote> > I like FireFox because with Adblockplus and > > noscript, I feel I'm pretty secure and I am > in > > control. With IE, I just don't feel I am. > > Especially as WSUS seems to keep resetting > our > > internet and intranet zones. > > Why, what sort of sites do you frequent? :-) Mainly the ones that don't work are Microsoft sites. I suspect it is me, but ... Some sites have really poor CSS/layout which IE renders better. If I get a site which fails to render properly (maybe the JS code isn't aware of any standard and just uses IE's way), then 1 click on the status bar and I'm reading it in IE inside FF.
Author: Richard Quadling
Posted: 19th March 2008 16:18 Richard Heyes:
Quote> > I like FireFox because with Adblockplus and > > noscript, I feel I'm pretty secure and I am > in > > control. With IE, I just don't feel I am. > > Especially as WSUS seems to keep resetting > our > > internet and intranet zones. > > Why, what sort of sites do you frequent? :-) Mainly the ones that don't work are Microsoft sites. I suspect it is me, but ... Some sites have really poor CSS/layout which IE renders better. If I get a site which fails to render properly (maybe the JS code isn't aware of any standard and just uses IE's way), then 1 click on the status bar and I'm reading it in IE inside FF.
Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 19th March 2008 16:26 > 1 click on the
Quote> status bar and I'm reading it in IE inside FF. Now I'm admitting ignorance, Is this "Firefox IEView"?
Author: Richard Quadling
Posted: 19th March 2008 17:09 Richard Heyes:
Quote> > 1 click on the > > status bar and I'm reading it in IE inside > FF. > > Now I'm admitting ignorance, Is this "Firefox > IEView"? Yes it is. Normally I have a little FF icon in the status bar. I can click it and get IE instead. I can even say that site X must always load as IE whilst still inside FF. Very useful. |
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Posted: 19th March 2008 11:53
This is a quick check using
Internet Explorer - 7.0.5730.11
Firefox - 2.0.0.12
Opera - 9.26
Safari - 3.0.4 (523.15)
Firefox IEView - 1.3.7
Firefox IETab - 1.3.3.20070528
All on Windows XP SP2.
I use CTRL/MouseWheel or CTRL/+, CTRL/- to resize my text.
Here is what I have observed.
IE - Text, Images, Scrollbars resize (full page zoom).
FF - Test resize.
Opera - Text, Images resize (full page zoom)
Safari - Text resizes.
IEView/IETab - No change.
Using the text size option from the menu.
IE - No change.
FF - Text resizes.
Opera - Text, Images resize (full page zoom).
Safari - Text resizes.
IEView/IETab - No change.
The zoom is nice, but why on earth are the scroll bars included?
Overall, I think Opera performs the best in this little test as I like the idea of a zoom more than just bigger letters.
Regards,
Richard Quadling ZCE1000.