US 2006/0218490 A1 · Method and apparatus for creating a web page

Abstract

Using standard web languages such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, specially configured elements are included in a web page to enhance the sizing (and/or resizing) behavior of the page as it is displayed by a browser, particularly the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and others made with the same underlying technology. These elements enable the creator of the page to transparently augment the sizing action of the browser, first, by using the browser's inherent sizing action to register the user's selection in the browser's Text Size menu and, second, by temporarily suspending that same inherent action pending script-driven modifications to the size-related settings of the page. In so doing, many of the restrictions ordinarily imposed by the browser may be overcome, such as the inability to size and resize, in reference to the user's selection in the browser's Text Size menu, a web page having contents set in pixels.

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Dependent claims

1) A method for modifying a sizing behavior of a web page of a browser having contents as said web page loads in said browser performing the steps of:

a) including in said web page a gauge for registering the current selection in said browser's sizing interface as said web page loads in said browser
(b) including in said web page a trigger for activating script in said web page whereby said sizing behavior of said web page may be modified in reference to the current selection in said browser's sizing interface

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and apparatus for creating a web page

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Method and apparatus for creating a web page

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Abstract

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