IE 7 does not resize text sized in pixels. I said it does the other day; I was wrong. Text sizing is still broken, but it does have a full page zoom feature (like Opera’s but not as smooth).
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IE 7 does not resize text sized in pixels. I said it does the other day; I was wrong. Text sizing is still broken, but it does have a full page zoom feature (like Opera’s but not as smooth).
Ahh, but it does. The accessibility problem has been solved.
IE7 can increase the size of text set in pixels. Roger can make the distinction between text zoom and page zoom all he wants, but the bottom line is that you can increase the size of text set in pixels in IE7. Yes, it's a full page zoom and not just a text zoom, but it's still resizing the text set in pixels -- right?
The fact that IE7's implementation doesn't make resizing the text as convienent as Firefox or Safari's doesn't matter. Accessibility and convienence are not the same thing. Don't confuse them.
Accessibility gurus can no longer claim this as an accesibility problem with IE7. Period.
@Jeff: if you're happy lumping your IE 7 users with the inconvenience of horizontal scrolling when they want bigger text, fair enough.
I'm sure when they hear your distinction between accessibility and convenience, they'll be happy. I mean, wheelchair users wouldn't mind if we put the ramp at the back of the building by the bins, would they?
Why "broken" ?
There is a real need for pixel "fixed" size. When you put text in junction with images or complex layout. Subtitles could be an example.
If one want proportional text, let he use proportional units and not pixels.
Mozilla Firefox behavior was only acceptable because it was the only way to increase the text size.
IE7 has a better way to react. Proportional sizes can be increased with text zoom as they should be. Pixel sized stay "fixed" in front of images and layout, and can be zoomed in the same way as images and fixed size elements : with page zoom.
IE7 is not broken, but Mozilla Firefox could be.
It wasn't impossible for people who wanted to resize px based text for accessibility reasons before. IE has had an option to ignore specified font-sizes for a while from it's accesibility options.