absolute-sized fonts scalable now?

HI everybody --

I only just noticed that fonts sized in absolute units -- 11px;, say
-- scale up/down in IE7 and FF3. Is this the case generally in modern
browsers (a wonderful thing if so) or have I somehow configured my
browser to do that scaling?

Thanks!

-- ben

On Oct 17, 1:51*am, lcplben <b... (AT) sellmycalls (DOT) com> wrote:

HI everybody --

I only just noticed that fonts sized in absolute units -- 11px;, say
-- scale up/down in IE7 and FF3. Is this the case generally in modern
browsers (a wonderful thing if so) or have I somehow configured my
browser to do that scaling?

You may notice that images are scalable now as well
Yes, it is the global approach change now by all prominent browsers:
instead of mangling with font size they are rescaling the whole page
as one unit, just like desktop text and graphics editors do.

On 2009-10-16, VK wrote:

On Oct 17, 1:51?am, lcplben <b... (AT) sellmycalls (DOT) com> wrote:
HI everybody --

I only just noticed that fonts sized in absolute units -- 11px;, say
-- scale up/down in IE7 and FF3. Is this the case generally in modern
browsers (a wonderful thing if so) or have I somehow configured my
browser to do that scaling?

You may notice that images are scalable now as well
Yes, it is the global approach change now by all prominent browsers:
instead of mangling with font size they are rescaling the whole page
as one unit, just like desktop text and graphics editors do.

Luckily, browsers (Firefox, at least) give you the option of
enlarging only the text. For most things that works much better
than enlarging everything.

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On 16 oct, 17:51, lcplben <b... (AT) sellmycalls (DOT) com> wrote:

I only just noticed that fonts sized in absolute units -- 11px;, say
-- scale up/down in IE7 and FF3. Is this the case generally in modern
browsers (a wonderful thing if so) or have I somehow configured my
browser to do that scaling?

Ben,

That is *not* what I experience with IE 7 and IE 8. Font size
specified with absolute unit (like px) are not scalable (resizable) in
IE 7 and IE 8. If you refer to zooming feature (zoom level in bottom-
right corner of UI) in IE 7 and IE 8, then this is another issue,
different, apart from text size resizing (via View/Text Size).

regards, Gérard
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