rifsuda01: Resize specific text elements on a page in Safari

Friday, 1 April 2011

Resize specific text elements on a page in Safari

Safari lets you zoom the contents of a web page in two ways: you can zoom everything on the page uniformly, or you can zoom just the text. Neither option is ideal, for a number of reasons. I wrote an extension called Rightsizer provides a third way that you may find better.

The problem with full page zooming is that when you zoom in, pretty soon the page is going to be too wide to fit in the browser window without resizing (which may be undesirable or impossible on smaller screens). It also makes graphics blurry.

The problem with Safari's text zooming is that it zooms all the text indiscriminately, so text in narrow, fixed-width containers (such as sidebars) can break in ugly ways or even overflow the containers.

And another problem with both types of zooming is that Safari only preserves your zoom level for the life of the current tab. When you open a new tab, your zoom level is forgotten.

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