Aug5

Zooming Fonts on the Web

Zooming tips for various browsers:

1. In Firefox, press/hold the Ctrl key while rubbing the mouse wheel. It will zoom in/out the font size of the text content in the page your mouse sits over.

2. In Konqueror — same thing.

3. In Opera, the action you have to perform is identical with the aforementioned. There’s but one difference: not only text will zoom but images as well, actually the whole web page you’re viewing.

Couple folks asked for an embedded (coded) similar capability in their sites, to make it quite obvious for the user. When your web site will show these font readability options then make sure visitor won’t have to hold the Ctrl key and rub the wheel; a click will suffice.

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Georg first started with programming in 1981. Did some machine engineering between 1985 and 1990. Then wasted an entire decade on DTP (Desktop Publishing), pre-press and printing. Since 2000, Georg escaped the Gutenberg territory to focus on web sites development and on-demand software applications programming. Don’t tell Georg that software comes in a box…