In many respects I prefer MSIE 7's zoom feature over Firefox 2's, depending
on which website I'm viewing.

I have 3 suggestions to provide more flexibility in the MSIE zoom feature,
to make MSIE more compatible with aging eyes:

1. Options to set zoom to 5%, 10% increments, not just the current 25%.

Firefox 2's 10% increments allow size to be increased adequately for my
aging eyes, without requiring much horizontal scrolling.

2. Zoom "text only" with alt-mouse wheel.

Again, the idea is to zoom but keep horizontal scrolling to the minimum.

In many web pages, the images are merely decorative. In many other pages,
clicking the image opens a large version of the image.

3. The ability to invert the mouse wheel zoom so it conforms with other
applications I use.
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Zooming is an important feature to those of us with aging eyes. Glasses,
bifocals and continuous vision lenses don't fully correct our vision.
Zooming the type is a much easier solution.

With aging eyes, presbyopia, the eye doesn't change focus easily -- so we
need different prescriptions depending on the distance from our eyes to what
we are looking at.

With multi-focus lenses (tri-focal, and continuous vision), different parts
of the lense have different prescriptions. Adjusting focus means moving our
heads around so we are looking through the part of the lense that has the
right prescription -- a cumbersome solution.

When it is possible to just to make the type bigger, that is generally the
superior solution.

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