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my site is aimed purely at the laptop market (dont ask why or argue!), all my users (or 95%+) we on a screen width of 1200+,
netbooks are now taking off, with a resolution of 1024 wide.
my site still looks great on a netbook if you zoom out once (ctrl-minus), but i don't want to rely on users knowing about ctrl-minus.
what are my options besides redesign? I'm keen not to have zoom buttons on my page.
is there a javascript zoomer outer?!!!
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No its not same. Zooming as implemented in modern browsers consists of nothing more than “stretching up” pixels. That is, the width of the element is not changed from 128 to 256 pixels; instead the actual pixels are doubled in size.
The zoom property in CSS allows you to scale your content. It is non-standard, and was originally implemented only in Internet Explorer. Although several other browsers now support zoom, it isn't recommended for production sites. .zoom { zoom: 150%; }
Select "Zoom," then click "Zoom In" to enlarge the website or "Zoom Out" to reduce its size. Each time "Zoom In" or "Zoom Out" is clicked, it will increase or reduce the magnification an additional level. Continue adjusting the "Zoom" option until the page is displayed to your liking.
While this doesn't sort out your zoom, you could try a little trick based on CSS & relative sizing.
If you have an image or a container that is 100px wide, try setting it to 10em wide (or faff with the em amount until you find the appropriate value). Eventually, if you do this to every single dimension specified upon your site, you'd be able to actively shrink the page by changing the default font-size. E.g. from 1em, to 0.91em.
People often use the relative sizing to allow people the flexibility of being able to shrink and grow font sizes as they want. It's not as commonly used on images (because they are by requirement, fixed in size). This needn't be the case though, and in this instance, might offer you a way out of a "full site redesign" and giving the effect of "zooming".
This might solve the problem without redesign, but may be tricky and would require a bit of testing. The way stylesheets cascade, shrinking the font a little more, element by element, might cause a few issues.
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