263540 - Ctrl + makes the homepage completely garbage!

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Parag Warudkar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Browse to http://www.compusa.com. Hit Ctrl+, watch the page layout going for a
toss each time. I don't know how to explain what exactly happens, so I am
attaching screenshots. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Browse to http://www.compusa.com. 
2.Hit Ctrl+, watch the page layout going for a toss each time. 
3.Feel bad ;)

Actual Results:  
Page layout was distorted.

Expected Results:  
Should have either not allowed to increase the text size or otherwise would have
rendered the page without distorting the layout.

IE doesn't increase size on the compusa homepage. Don't know if this is relevant.

Comment 1

[Parag Warudkar]

Attachment: Normal Rendering

Without increasing the Text size.

Comment 2

[Parag Warudkar]

Attachment: Ctrl+ One Render

Page after pressing Ctrl+ once. Notice the overlapped menus.

Comment 3

[Parag Warudkar]

Attachment: Ctrl+ Twice Render

Totally distorted layout.

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

That's not a browser bug.  The code/layout of their page is just written
assuming fixed text sizes, and it has no flexibility to adjust to larger ones.

This is either invalid, or a Tech Evangelism bug.

Comment 5

[Parag Warudkar]

That's probably why IE doesn't react to View->Text Size->* on this site. If
there is a way to determine such inflexible code which assumes Fixed Text sizes,
can we not ignore to react to Ctrl+ in such cases? Probably would help avoid the
feeling of Browser doing something odd.

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #5)
> That's probably why IE doesn't react to View->Text Size->* on this site. If
> there is a way to determine such inflexible code which assumes Fixed Text sizes,
> can we not ignore to react to Ctrl+ in such cases? Probably would help avoid the
> feeling of Browser doing something odd.


Bad idea. Ctrl+ isn´t about showing beautiful sites, it is essential for people
with bad eyesight to increase the fontsize, no matter how the rest is rendered.
It is better to see a distorted site than seeing nothing.

Comment 7

[Bill Mason]

It would also put us in violation of one of the User Agent Accessibilty Guidelines.
http://w3.org/TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-20021217/guidelines.html#tech-configure-text-scale

I'm going to call this invalid.  Someone could make it a TE bug if they feel the
need.

Comment 8

[Parag Warudkar]

I wasn't aware of the relation between Ctrl+ and accessibility - From that point
of view it is a bad/terrible/violating idea to not respond to Ctrl+ but for the
 most common case of end user with normal eyesight (wanting to increase the font
size due to high resolution display he uses) who doesn't understand the W3c
standard and HTML/CSS coding standards, it still makes sense to atleast warn the
user - "This site uses fixed font sizes and may not render properly with
non-default text sizes. Do you want to continue?" 

(Ok that wording may be made better, but it gives an idea!)