Thursday, April 1, 2010

Text Resizing

Some of you may notice that I've removed the "text resizing" buttons at the top of each page on this website. I did this for a couple of reasons: (1) removal results in the website loading and running faster, and (2) there's a better way to do text resizing for those of you who desire this feature. Josh Lockhart, a very good web designer, recently wrote:
I think it is better to use the browser’s built-in content zoom features which scale text, images, and other content 1:1 so that the design stays intact as the developer intended, and you are able to read the site with larger text (zoomed in).

You can zoom in usually by pressing Cmd+Shift+PLUS and zoom out by pressing Cmd+MINUS in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. There is a similar command in IE7+, but using Cntrl key instead.
Try Josh's keyboard command suggestions. They work really well. In fact, much better than the text resizing option I provided previously.

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