Is having a flexible layout required anymore?
It is second nature for me to command + while testing out my XHTML and CSS to make sure the text scales nicely and the layout is flexible to wider and longer content. Firefox 3 has been my default browser since it’s been out of beta and I still increase the text-size to check if my layout is adapting correctly. Doing this in Firefox 3 has a different effect then what I am used to and I’m constantly reminded, “Oh yeah, Firefox now does that full-page-zoom thing”.
On a recent project I was working to get an Adobe Fireworks design “sliced” into XHTML and CSS; this time I remembered about the Firefox 3 full-page-zoom. Thinking about what Firefox 3 does, I also remember that IE7 does something similar but not as well as Firefox. Now launching Safari 3.1…, ready, set, command + …aww bummer, just normal text-resizing.
So which browsers are doing the full-page-zoom and which are doing just text-resizing?
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