Re: [Camino] the new zoom: the real zoom

What you say is true enough, but, frankly, I see no other incentive  
for clicking zoom on fluid layouts than wishing it to go full-screen.  
There is just no point to it otherwise, I think.

Sebastian

On 17.11.2006, at 13:17, Noemi wrote:

>
> Personally, I think fit-to-content is more important for fluid
> layouts than for fixed-width (although how one determines what fit-to-
> content is for a fluid layout is beyond me).  But zooming to full
> screen on a fluid layout is a nightmare.  Long line lengths are very
> difficult to read (there's plenty of research out there to support
> this), and most fluid layouts don't limit them.  It's extremely
> difficult to read a maximized fluid-layout page at any resolution
> higher than 1024x768.  At 1600x1000, it's impossible.
>
> Just my 2c.
>
> -Noemi
>
>
> On Nov 17, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Sebastian Winkler wrote:
>
>> Finally, in the latest branch build, Camino has taken to exhibit the
>> mac-typical window-zoom: fit-to-contant rather that full-screen.
>> A true milestone!
>>
>> I must say though, that for not fixed-width layouts (pages that
>> reflow the contents according to window-width) the full-screen
>> behaviour would seem to be the only sensible thing. Wouldn't a hybrid
>> approach, depending on the nature of the page, be the best solution?
>> Also, right now zooming a window with a frameset doesn't seem to
>> avail to anything (though sometimes Camino takes to augmenting the
>> window-width for approx. 20px per click)
>>
>> Regards to all,
>> Sebastian
>>
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