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Re: IE doesn't increase font-size in px

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Apr 11, 2013 2:18PM

2013-04-11 22:56, Angela French wrote:

> I'm doing some accessibility testing on a new web app and Zooming
> works really well in used on site designed using responsive design
> techniques.

This really depends on how the responsive design has been done. Many
principles and techniques are nowadays said to be responsive. It also
depends on what zooming really means.

In browsers, zooming normally does not mean just scaling everything,
preserving all proportions, as that would not be very useful. Instead,
font size and simple elements like images are scaled. This means that
the layout is not necessarily preserved, and text may get reflown. This
differs from changing font size, and it really depends which one is more
suitable.

Yucca