[WEB4LIB] CSS versus tables when zooming a web page in Opera

[Thomas Dowling]

John Fitzgibbon wrote:

> 
> I have looked at other web pages and what interests me is that pages
> that survive this degree of scaling (up to 1000 per cent) all seem to
> use tables rather than CSS to achieve their layout. Is it conceivable
> that tables might be better after all? Please say it ain't so.

Define "better".  You're trying to work with a proprietary feature of 
one browser, within a tightly constrained page design.  It isn't that 
surprising that this particular feature has some rough edges.  Since 
part of Opera's zoom feature includes a recalculation of pixel sizes, it 
doesn't surprise me that it zooms tables with pixel dimensions.

FWIW, my copy of Opera 8.0b zooms DIVs with either pixel or em dimensions.


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Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu