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Sandra Earl

zomigi.com » Why browser zoom shouldn't kill flexible layouts - 0 views

  • Liquid layouts get rid of the dreaded horizontal scrollbar
  • Liquid layouts allow you to make full use of the area available in the viewport, showing more or less content, depending on what will fit at any given moment.
  • Liquid layouts essentially allow users to choose the line length, or number of text characters per line of text, that is most comfortable for them to read.
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  • If you have images that you think the user will want to get a closer look at, you can choose to scale only these images using easy CSS tricks. You can set up your images and CSS in such a way that the images will have little distortion or blurriness when scaled dynamically by the browser. The other images can all remain a constant size, so that they don’t get in the way of users with very large text and contribute to horizontal scrollbars, float drops, or other nasty things that can happen when you put huge images into web pages. And of couse, if a user does want to scale one of the non-scalable images, they can always use the browser zoom function as a backup method.
Vernon Fowler

Responsive Design is Too Responsive? - 0 views

  • When you use browser zoom in Webkit browsers (Chrome and Safari), all elements on the page increase in size and start overlapping content. This is because WebKit browsers zoom to make the content bigger but the width of the browser remains unaffected, which means it doesn’t trigger responsive style sheet elements or address layout issues.
  • This is an accessibility issue as users with vision deficiencies use browser zoom to navigate websites. If they use Google Chrome they will have a lot of issues accessing content.
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