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

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From: Steve Green
Date: Apr 15, 2013 3:14AM

Text-only sizing solves the problem of the 99.99% of websites that have not been built using responsive design.

Furthermore, almost every responsive design I have tested has failed to support 200% zoom. Depending on the screen resolution, no zooming at all may be possible without loss of some content on some of these sites. My experience has been that websites using responsive design have handled zooming worse than non-responsive designs. Also some have reduced functionality when in 'mobile' mode.

So until perfectly-built responsive designs become ubiquitous, we still need text-only zooming.

Steve Green