Re: Retiring the smalle/larger

On Dec 28, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> I think I've done it before, but if so I'll do it again. I'd like to suggest we get rid of the smaller/larger text links ont he website.
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> Is there a browser released in the last 15 years that doesn't already have this functionality builtin? And if you use the features in the browser, it scales the images we use for headlines on the front page as well for example,so I believe that experience is actually better too... It also allows you multiple different levels of size/zoom, whereas we only allow one normal and one large.
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> Bottom line - do we add a single piece of functionality by having those there?

I don't know if we track how many people actually click those links via GA or the like, but in all likelihood, my guess is the percentage of "real clicks" to those links are low. We should probably defer to the user on their zoom settings these days, because as you said, the browser engines handle a lot more than our script does for page / font sizing.

So in summary, +1 to removing the smaller/larger text links.

Jonathan