405310 - use text zoom within (50%,200%) and full zoom outside that range

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

I hear here and there something like this was suggested but I don't see it filed, so here goes

my personal zooming cases seem to support this:
 1. (most common) adjust body text for comfortable reading
     a. (most common) increase ~one step
     b. (less common) decrease ~one step, others
    full zoom doesn't help the goal, and degrades quality of images without
    improving their readability with such small increments; text zoom doesn't
    tend to cause layout problems for body text
 2. (less common) viewing from a greater than usual distance, e.g. for a
    larger audience. zoom in several steps, layout problems with text zoom
    only are probably usually to scale images as well
 3. (occasional) work around white navigation element text wrapping into white
    body background due to wider than designed-for default font by decreasing
    zoom ~one step. full zoom obviously won't help here

not scaling images when zooming at non-intefer factors has the additional benefit of not making nearest-neighbor scaled images look like ass.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

>     full zoom doesn't help the goal

erm, edit snafu. yes it does, but not more so than text zoom, because ...

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

>     larger audience. zoom in several steps, layout problems with text zoom
>     only are probably usually to scale images as well

wow, I suck. "...layout problems with text zoom only are likely; usually want to scale images as well"

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Attachment: patch1

a quick sort of patch, seems to work good enough for testing