[WEB4LIB] Re: Tupperware's Senior Friendly/Shrink Text magnifying glass

[e roel]

I like this option myself and ran upon it a few years ago.  For example, the
International Herald Tribune uses a javascript to achieve this.  It does not
change fonts, but actually changes the size of the current font in use.  They
also have a neat script to determine the number of columns one may like in
viewing the page (also a javascript).  The size / column optioning only
appears once you have gone to actual story content pages, so I just selected
an article to point to from today's issue:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/31/news/quake.html

Hope this helps,
E Roel

------ Original Message ------
Received: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:38:40 AM EST
From: Ryan Eby <ryaneby at gmail.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Tupperware's Senior Friendly/Shrink Text magnifying
glass

> It's quite common on sites these days except most of them use graphics
> of a letter of various sizes instead of the magnifying glass that
> tupperware does. Most of the implementations I've seen use alternate
> stylesheets for the site.
> 
> Tutorial with code:
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/
> 
> And a more recent implementation:
> http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/iotbs_the_directors_cut.html
> 
> If you search google for 'style switcher' you will also find some
> server side versions among other things.
> 
> Ryan Eby
> 
> 
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:47:12 -0800 (PST), Phalbe Henriksen
> <phenriksen at neflin.org> wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > Are any of you familiar with the ability to enlarge and shrink text on a
web
> > page? Go to www.tupperware.com to see it in the upper right of the main
> > page. This is the first time I've ever seen it. Is it code I could easily
> > use?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Phalbe Henriksen
> > Director
> > Bradford County Public Library
> > Starke, FL
> > 
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