Questions to do with resizing elements.
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Constant canvas size vs. Resizable canvas
When developing a graphical editor there are two options when creating a canvas:
a canvas that has a constant size
a canvas that can be re-sized by adding figures at the edge of the canvas, or by ...
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Usefulness of on-site text resize tools
I'm not sure what to call them, but anyone know of research on the effectiveness of including the ability to resize text onscreen via a buttons/toggle. I mean the "aA" button you still sometimes see ...
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Resizing a Chart
A system that I'm working on has a pane with a chart displayed under a table.
The user can choose to resize the pane to see more of the table. However, when this happens, the chart gets squeezed ...
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Dynamically Resize Pictures
I have a set of different sized images of products that I want to display on my web page with four to a row. The issue is that because they are different sizes, I don't know how to display them ...
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Is it a bad idea to resize fonts with the browser?
For certain special pages I want to put content all on one page.
Think of them as cheatsheets (or similar) the idea being is that users should benefit from seeing the whole page in one glance.
However ...
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Why is resizing the browser window bad practice?
I asked how I can resize the browser window with JavaScript. Everybody told me not to do it. Why is this a bad practice?
I think sometimes it can be good. For example, I want to show users a tweeting ...
