Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites by Antony Kennedy Inayaili de León

Author:Antony Kennedy, Inayaili de León
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apress®
Published: 2011-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

Fonts and Units

Modern browsers have built-in page zooming, which enlarges the entire page, including fonts, images, layout elements, and so on. But this is not the silver bullet that saves us from having to deal with the eternal font zooming problem in older browsers, especially when dealing with high-traffic websites, where 5 percent of the visitors using Internet Explorer 6 might mean more than 50,000 visitors and potential clients. Zooming the page can also have negative side effects, like horizontal scrolling and less legible content (even though the opposite is the intent).

An alternative exists (and many use it): to zoom only the text. Let's look at a comparison. Figure 6-5 shows a news article on Yahoo!, which has been zoomed in by one step using the default full page zooming:

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