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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jan 12, 2006 7:23AM

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Rimantas Liubertas wrote:

> Why not different path - before visiting said site NN had no idea
> that font size can be changed. When he saw that implemented
> as custom widget on the page, he might get an idea, this can be
> done in browser too - and starts to look for this feature, and discovers it.
> So in this case that special contro has helped NN to find out about
> features of his browser.
>
> Why this scenario is less likely?

Because the obvious and natural idea is that if there is a font size
control on the page, the page author (and the user naturally expects the
page author know more than an ordinary user) _knows_ that there is no
font size control in the browser.

(And in fact, that assumption is correct in a distorted manner: the author
who added the control knows that most browsers currently have similar
control "hidden" in a dropdown menu, instead of a button-like widget.)

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/