d d wrote:
> The IE7 Page-zoom feature. It lets you choose a zoom level for the
> entire page, and even works with video. I've found it useful on sites
> like youtube to get an instant double-sized video.

if your flash is set up properly, then all you have to do is
right click on the video and click on Zoom In

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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> d d wrote:
>> The IE7 Page-zoom feature. It lets you choose a zoom level for the
>> entire page, and even works with video. I've found it useful on sites
>> like youtube to get an instant double-sized video.
> if your flash is set up properly, then all you have to do is right click
> on the video and click on Zoom In

That does zoom in but it is a true zoom in, you see only a part of the
video. The IE7 "page zoom" changes the size of the object/embed tag
dynamically and makes the whole page (including the video) larger.

Not sure if that's clear. With IE7 page zoom, it makes the whole page
larger. What previously might have rendered as 800 pixels wide by 2000
high, is now 1600 pixels wide and 4000 high. So the video is twice as
big (4 times the size in area) and all icons and text is also twice the
size.

That FF zoom I found also increases the whole page (icons and text) but
when it comes to the video, it leaves it exactly the same size it was.

The Flash zoom also keeps the Flash video the same size, but zooms in on
a small part of the video. Useful, but not for making the whole video
larger.

~dd

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:54:33 +0200, in mozilla.support.firefox, d d wrote:

>I've switched from IE7 to FF2.0.0.4 as my default browser .... (waits
>for the cheers to die down) .... but there's one thing I miss. I'm
>fairly sure it's probably possible via an add-on, I just haven't found a
>good one yet.
>
>The IE7 Page-zoom feature. It lets you choose a zoom level for the
>entire page, and even works with video. I've found it useful on sites
>like youtube to get an instant double-sized video.
>
Yup. You're not going to get that in Firefox 2.

That's IE leveraging the single OS it has to run under, and using DirectX to
render its browser Window to a scalable, bilinear filtered Direct3D pane, IIRC.

It's an advantage of a proprietary system. You don't have to write code that
runs in a variety of operating environments, and can leverage the strengths of
the singular proprietary environment.

Anyone know if FF 3 is going to do something similar with OpenGL?

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