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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Jun 20, 2016 10:02AM

Chaals McCathie Nevile wrote:

> I'd definitely urge everybody to put the focus on responsive design.
>>
>
> Right…


Definitely, and at last!


Responsive design that doesn't consider text-only zoom seems to be a bit
> broken still.
>

I'm not entirely clear what you mean here. It is very hard to do both, as
only RWD really gives you options for changing the layout when expanding.

With text-sizing it meant having buffers around text, but you need media
queries (or some very funky floats) to change the interface without RWD.

The only good examples I know of RWD sites that also handle text-sizing are
ones where it is made equivalent. For example (and from a quick look),
theguardian.com sizes everything in EMs, so zoom and text-sizing are the
same.

Does that help? In that case there is effectively no text-only sizing, as
images and layout also scale with text size.


Is text-only zoom really dead? I might be on a limb, but I'm not inclined
> to write it off.
>

The only reason (use-case) I've heard to use text-sizing in the context of
responsive design is _mallory's, where large blurry images are difficult to
deal with. Are there others?

To me, the solution for large blurry images would be to keep them sharp.
The picture element [1] seems to have good support now [2], perhaps we can
push for zoomed image to use the higher resolution versions?

-Alastair

1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/responsive/picture-element/
2] http://caniuse.com/#feat=picture