Re: Font-size buttons

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Stephen Poley wrote:

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

What's more: once they've found it and learned how to use it, it works
on every web site (modulo the issue of absolute units, anyway).

> >This page button trick may be more convenient.
>
> I doubt it.

Having to use a different user interface on each and every web site
which offers such a feature is not exactly the most productive way to
proceed, after all.

Sounds like something that would please marketing, though:- offering
the customer something that they'd already got, but with a competitive
difference that, unlike the one the customer already had, this one
wouldn't work with anyone else's products. Let me join you in a
grumble.
.