KDE/kdelibs/khtml

[Leo Savernik]

Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Germain Garand:
> > This would be a
> > usability issue. Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- must always apply to the font size
> > zoom, never to the page zoom by default.
>
> Probably but what makes you so peremptory about that?
>
> Opera uses it's zooming with ctrl++/ctrl+-, but I agree that it's less
> invasive, as it's a mixed mode zoom that does attempt to fit-to-width for a
> certain zoom range (I'm experimenting with that too).

That must be new. My locally installed opera does full zoom.
>
> Nevertheless I think zooming is best suited for ctr + mousewheel, where
> zoom could be made to center on the node under mouse, making for a nice
> instinctive zooming.

The usability problem with full zoom is that one gets horizontal scrollbars 
very soon (especially on those 6pt default font size pages). So one has to 
scroll back and forth to read big enough but then too wide rows of text. 
Hence, for a web browser, font scaling can be considered to be the "natural" 
action to be issued for Ctrl++/- which tries hard to fit within the available 
viewport space.
>
> > On the bright side, can we now implement the ms-css "zoom" property?
>
> can you elaborate on that? what is it up to?

This is an msie-extension to css [1]. Applied to an element (block-level 
only?), this element and it's children are zoomed by the given factor.

mfg
	Leo

[1] 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/zoom.asp