Re: FW: Zoom functionality improvements
Alexander Limi
I noticed that you never got a reply to this email. Rest assured that we're
doing something about this — we definitely need a zoom indicator, doubly so
now that it's so easy to trigger with gestures on the Mac and since we
remember the setting for a given website between sessions.
As usual, it's too early to know exactly which release we'll end up landing
it in, but it's on our radar, and it will be fixed.
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Alexander Limi · Firefox User Experience · http://limi.net
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Lars Meldal <lars_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi there,
> Mozilla usability developers
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> In Internet
> Explorer 8.0, Microsoft has finally managed to improve the zoom
> functionality to
> the level it has been working in Word for some 15 years or more now. Better
> late than never, I say. In IE 8.0, you can actually READ the current
> zooming percentage
> in the lower right corner of the browser window. Even more, now it is
> possible
> to open the zoom menu and actually TYPE IN the exact user defined zooming
> percentage you want for yourself. This means, you don't need to rely on the
> keyboard shortcuts or the mouse scrolling wheel anymore for zooming in and
> out
> (at a fixed and unalterable rate of increment, that is) in order to find a
> zoom
> level you can live with when reading internet sites.
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> It has taken
> 15 years for Microsoft to accomplish these tiny things! (and as far as I
> recall, Microsoft were not even those who introduced the zooming
> functionality
> in browsers in the first place.)
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> I think it
> would be cool to have these zoom functionality improvements built into the
> Firefox browser also, and the sooner the better. If the general ambition
> for
> Mozilla developers is to build a better browser than the Explorer, then the
> least you could do is adopting what Microsoft has already accomplished
> here...
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> Thank you
> for your attention.
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> Regards,
> Lars MeldalFirefox user
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