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Re: Font Resizers (WAS RE: back to top)

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Jan 11, 2006 8:34AM

> > Why do web developers have
> > to shoulder the burden once again?
>
> Because browser developers do not care about your website and never will,
> they only care about market share. The driver for browser developers is
> market share, features are only a factor in as much as it drives that.
> Anecdotally it seems tabbed browsing (a la Firefox) is such a feature, I
> don't believe font resizing will be.

Let's not forget that a font resizing widget only comes into
consideration if your type is not big enough. So why not solve that
problem, it is so much easier.