Comments on: Zoom layouts

By: Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:18:22 +0000

Agreed, I didn’t. I always thought a zoom layout was the effect noted upon enlargment of the entire site, syn: elastic. Now don’t I feel silly. I thought the other style was just considered large-text/high-contrast. I actually didn’t realize the termed zoom was coined for that type. Man, I swear, a day doesn’t go by without my learning something. Thank goodness for that

Great site, by the way, John. Really quite impressive.

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:35:25 +0000

Hi Mike,
Maybe I didn’t interpret Joe’s article properly, but my take on it was that a zoom layout was actually an alternative, high-contrast style that had already been ‘zoomed’ for low vision users.
It seems to me that ‘zoom’ and ‘elastic’ are probably two slightly different things.
I’ll leave your links here though because it sounds like a good idea for another article to list just elastic designs. (There’s at least one other Zen Garden design I can think of – will have to track it down.)

By: Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:06:51 +0000

I'd like to suggest three sites that are of elastic design: Accessites.org GBHXonline.com And my CSS Zen Garden submission (only elastic submission that I know of). Mike