In Konqueror the font in web pages could always be increased directly by pressing Ctrl and move the mouse wheel. But since it just increased the font size, not the graphics size, and therefore destroyed the layout of the web pages totally.
With KDE 4 this behaviour has changed: the images are now zoomed as well, so the entire layout is kept and showed to the viewers as expected.
This is one of the smaller hints you do not know until someone tells you 
April 24, 2008 at 11:19
Yeah, this is indeed a very nice feature, and I didn’t know this until someone on the dot mentioned this
April 24, 2008 at 11:23
Thanks, I guess I’ll have to try out KDE4 now
April 24, 2008 at 12:17
Actually I don’t like this, I’d rather zoom like in KDE3.5’ Konqueror or even better Opera. But I’m sure I can rebind Ctrl+Mousewheel to changing font size only. Another problem (at least when I tried it in KDE4.0) is that it’s pixel based and that fonts get unsharp.
April 24, 2008 at 12:30
I hope that ctrl+wheel is for font and other, exp, ctrl+shift+wheel is for zoom. Because on most sites, font itself is too small or too huge and I want it smaller/bigger, not graphics…..
April 24, 2008 at 12:39
Wonderful!
April 24, 2008 at 12:56
Nice, catching up with Firefox 3
April 24, 2008 at 13:12
fyanardi, that’s exactly the same place were I got it from
April 24, 2008 at 13:57
@Anonymous you mean catching up with Opera. :p
Hmm I’m using KDE 4 trunk from time to time but did not spot that feature, so thanks for posting about it.
May 4, 2008 at 18:01
I think so with morricone ,this feature decrease graphics quality.
December 18, 2008 at 7:08
This feature SUCKS. Not only does the zoom take longer to be rendered now, the worst part is that page width changes on nearly every page, forcing me to do horizontal scroll (ugh!) and, to add insult to injury, links buttons and other form inputs are unclickable if the zoom is over 100%.
Thanks, but no thanks. Please rebind my mousewheel+control to the actions that the VIEW MENU -> ZOOM have. Those work correctly by increasing just the font size without wrecking the page or affordable interaction elements.
December 19, 2008 at 0:07
Rudd-O,
you totally misunderstood the idea behind the feature: of course there is a width change – that is the entire idea of that feature! Because it *zooms*, which means it must enlarge every piece in the same ratio in ehigth and width. Increasing the font size has little to do with zoom and should be, correctly called “font increase”.
However, about the un-clickable buttons and forms, it might be worth it to fill a bug report.