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Other web devs notice Safari 4 diverges from old text-resize?

5 points by CalmQuiet ↗ HN
Now the Cmd-+/1 (or Cntl-+/-) changes size of images as well as text.

This presents web design with a new phenomenon: Whereas I used to be able to count on visitors to change font size to suit their readability needs, now I find that if/when they do the page layout may be changed my image size changes.

This might have been okay if all/most/any browsers had always operated this way. But now... what a PITA to have to rework old stategies on many sites where I've been able to count on image sizes remaining set.

Anyone else struggling with this? ...or even heard Apple announce a strategy change.

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wyday
This is a trend that all browsers are following (Firefox 3.0+, IE 7+, Opera). It has been going on for a while. Your best bet is to make your text large enough for everyone to read. Or add some JS to dynamically resize text.

Choose your poison.

CalmQuiet
Well, as long as there's some consensus that that's the future direction, I can sure live with it.

I guess I hadn't noticed it in FF because the increase for photos with each cmd-+ seems much smaller than in Safari. ...which brings up one more form of inconsistency among browsers. ::giant sucking sound::

OperaLover
Yes, the one problem I have with this MO is that it introduces more room for only vaguely parallel ways for browsers to implement it. Not what the browser-design world needs.