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19th January 2008 - Link Blog

Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies. Ryan points out that sizing everything in ems, while neat, imposes a pretty hefty maintenance cost and is rapidly becoming unnecessary thanks to the page zoom feature in IE 7, Opera and Firefox 3.0.

Posted 19th January 2008 at 7:36 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 19th January 2008.

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