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

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Apr 15, 2013 11:30AM

David Ashleydale wrote:

> almost 7 out of 10 of them didn't even allow me to only resize the text
> at all!


Hi David,

There's another conclusion I could draw from that: If you need things to
be bigger, there's no point in using text-sizing in IE.

Given that:
- The default user controls are for zoom (across desktop
IE/FF/Safari/Chrome/Opera)
- In testing with people who need zoom, I've only found people that either
didn't know about zoom, or only knew about the standard interface mechanism.

I would be inclined to ignore text-only zoom.

I guess horizontal scrolling beats overlapping text?

-Alastair