Worth Styling Zoomed Out?

Question

This may be a bad question for this exchange, but is it worth setting for scalable browsers? For example, I can increase the chrome up to 25%, and my navigation breaks, do I have to adapt to this, or will 99% of the cases be in order, without additional styling efforts? In which case would I encounter such problems?

Answer 1

25%? I would not worry about this if you have no precedent for your page where your users will be so far away.

Now, 75% -125%, you can consider this. Typically, your page will work just fine at other zoom levels. If this is not the case, probably because you have hard-coded something that you shouldn't have. (For example, you can assume that text on a particular line will never be wrapped. This is not a good assumption. Different devices use different fonts, which in some cases can lead to text wrapping.) In these cases, make sure that only if necessary set dimensions to specific values. Let the page be as large as possible.

Answer 2

Probably not.

A good responsive design and a sticky footer can get around this problem. However, how many people are reducing this far?

See Marshall Roch's comment at the bottom of this link - he says a small percentage has 1 zoom level at a normal level on facebook. So zooming up to 25% seems pretty extreme. I suspect that any users who use this zoom level will be used for sites that look weird.