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Why browser zoom shouldn’t kill flexible layouts

Now that all the major browsers include the ability to zoom the entire page layout, rather than just increase text size, are liquid and elastic layouts obsolete? Can’t we just use fixed-width layouts and let the user zoom them if needed? The answer to that question depends on whether browser zoom solves all of the same problems than liquid and elastic layouts solve, and I don’t think it does. — Excellent article from Zoe Mickley Gillenwater.

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Kyle Gach

June 17 2009 @ 03:16am #

Article is here:

http://zomigi.com/blog/why-browser-zoom-shouldnt-kill-flexible-layouts/


And Andy, your capcha appears to be broken in (at least) Firefox3 on OS X.

John Fredrickson

June 18 2009 @ 08:31am #

The Captcha is working fine for me in Firefox3 on OSX (Safari too). Perhaps you missed it as it’s actually located on the line above and to the right of the captcha entry field. I remember having trouble finding it on my first time too.

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