Mouse scroll (wheel) and control (ctrl) 1

[TempestT37]

I am using IE6 and last night I discovered something. If I hold the ctrl button and scroll my wheel mouse button the texts gets bigger or smaller. Only some web pages (Microsoft) do this or just parts of a page (this site). I don’t see anything in the code that would cause this, and I don’t know what it is called so I can’t do a search for it.
Anybody know what this is caused by?

Michael

 

[xutopia]

when someone uses px in the css code to define the size of font the font stays "fixed". It is best to use percentages.

It is why many usability experts such as Jakob Nielsen says you should be very careful about your font size.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020819.html

On a side note Mozilla ignores fixed font and using control and mouse scroll can change to any size you want (infinite).

Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran
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[TempestT37]

I will be doing some reading on this.

Thanks
Michael