Sandy wrote:
> http://cantoraccess.com/beta_sandy2/publications/paper01b.html#skip
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>> in IE 7 if you increase the zoom
>> level (control in lower right corner) you have to do horizontal
>> scrolling to read the entire text.
Is this a quotation from somewhere? A user's report?
Anyway, the answer is "works as designed". The zoom control in IE 7 (a
novelty, didn't exist in IE 6) is for zooming everything, so a zoom
larger than 100 % inevitably introduces horizontal scroll bar - on _any_
page. It is _not_ a text size control. It affects the page as a whole,
including images and maintaining the layout.
IE also has text size control, which only affects the font size of text
and generally causes the layout to be reformatted, so on "fluid design"
pages, no horizontal scroll bar appears. IE users might not know about
this and might take the zoom control for it, since there is no button
for it by default. The user needs to use the View command to find the
text size control menu (and he _can_ modify the button bar to contain
the text size control). Moreover, the text size control has five
alternative sizes only, and it does not affect texts that have their
font size set, in a page's style sheet, in pixels or points (unless the
user takes action to override all font size settings on web pages, which
can be done but is rarely known and rarely done). For your page, the
latter is not a problem since it apparently does not set font size or
sets it in relative units.
> What's up with IE7? How can I fix this?
There's nothing you need to do and nothing you can do about it, but you
might wish to pass forward the information on IE usage to the user(s)
who reported the "problem". (It's a real problem to them, of course -
they're confused with the zoom function.)
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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