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Re: text only zoom

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From: _mallory
Date: Jun 18, 2016 4:29PM

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 05:05:49PM +0200, Olaf Drümmer wrote:
> I'd definitely urge everybody to put the focus on responsive design. Just scaling the text may cause all kinds of hard to avoid issues (and wouldn't a vision impaired user want to see icons and other such stuff enlarged at the same time?).
Traditionally I did not want images to zoom with the text, and I was
a Firefox diehard until 3.6 for this reason among others. Trying to
read sharp clear text with something big and blurry next to it
made reading difficult. Now, if it's a problem, I turn off images
instead.

cheers,
_mallory