Simon Willison’s Weblog

19th January 2008 - Link Blog

Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies. Ryan points out that sizing everything in ems, while neat, imposes a pretty hefty maintenance cost and is rapidly becoming unnecessary thanks to the page zoom feature in IE 7, Opera and Firefox 3.0.

Posted 19th January 2008 at 7:36 am

Recent articles

Datasette Agent - 21st May 2026
Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything - 19th May 2026
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes - 19th May 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 19th January 2008.

css 237 ems 2 firefox3 7 fullpagezoom 1 ie7 8 opera 32 ryan-tomayko 13

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe