Zoom function in IE7

After downloading and testing IE7 yesterday I spotted the zoom function available. Opera have had a zoom function for some time now and it looks like IE are getting in on the action. It's a sound idea and a great accessibility aid.

I thought I'd test a few of our sites to see how they looked on IE7 bearing in mind that making them work properly on previous versions has meant including IE only hacks I was prepared for the worst. In actual fact they all performed really well and look exactly how they should do. Pheeeeeeew!

It was then that I spotted the zoom function in the bottom right hand corner.



Testing the zoom function gave a few unexpected results.

This is the how the menu in our Free ISP 12Free should look,



and this is what it looks like in IE7 with the zoom function on 150%,



now that's not very good now is it. The zoom function is supposed to improve website accessibility but it actually makes it impossible to read the menu.

So how does it look in Opera,



spot on! Looks like the good people at opera can do things properly but IE manages to make a mess of things. No surprises there then.