Yes, if you have to do horizontal scrolling then it's a failure. But the goal is to get to the point where there's adaptive layout, where you can have single column in a small window, and multi-column when there's the space to accommodate/require it.
I'm not sure whether that necessarily clashes with full-page scaling; both are ways of trying to make the best use of the available space in the browser. Full-page scaling is probably, in idealistic terms, the less-good solution, but it's likely be more successful, at least in the short term, because it requires less of the page author. Long term - ten to twenty years - adaptive layout could, possibly, become the norm.
Microsoft's failure to support SVG is very annoying; it will be interesting (and possibly frustrating) to see whether SVG continues to suffocate in the meantime or drives adoption of other browsers. I'm inclined to think the former, because most end-users dont know about it and don't care. I'd rather it were otherwise.
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I'm not sure whether that necessarily clashes with full-page scaling; both are ways of trying to make the best use of the available space in the browser. Full-page scaling is probably, in idealistic terms, the less-good solution, but it's likely be more successful, at least in the short term, because it requires less of the page author. Long term - ten to twenty years - adaptive layout could, possibly, become the norm.
Microsoft's failure to support SVG is very annoying; it will be interesting (and possibly frustrating) to see whether SVG continues to suffocate in the meantime or drives adoption of other browsers. I'm inclined to think the former, because most end-users dont know about it and don't care. I'd rather it were otherwise.