Re: Font-size buttons

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:42:26 GMT, Mason A. Clark
<masoncERASETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I came upon this trick: a usemap with two buttons for
>changing the page's font size:
>
>============
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>============
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>Two questions: (1) how does it work? New pages?
>What's the question mark ( "cfm?font..." ) do?
>
>and (2) is this idea useful?

I suggest that something along the lines of
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/main/adjust.html is a lot more useful.

(Having written that page a long time ago I suddenly got a bunch of
messages thanking me for it recently. Apparently it briefly got up to
first position in Google).

>The user *may* have the ability to change font size or
>do a zoom in the browser.

AFAIK *every* graphical browser has that sort of ability (as long as the
author doesn't screw things up by using absolute units).

>This page button trick may be more convenient.

I doubt it.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/
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