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Posted by Nick Theodorakis on 08/11/06 03:07
Toby Inkster wrote:
> Nick Theodorakis wrote:
>
>> IIRC an early version of Netscape used to have prominent buttons on the
>> toolbar for changing text size, but I digress.
>
> YDNRC. Netscape has never included toolbar buttons for changing font size.
> In fact, increase/decrease font size was only added to the menu in version
> 4. Before that, one had to go into the Preferences dialogue box.
>
> OTOH, Internet Explorer has had font size buttons on its toolbar since
> version 2. In version 2, there were separate buttons to increase and
> decrease size. In version 3 this became a single button that toggled
> between five sizes. In version 4 the feature disappeared. In 5, the IE
> toolbar became configurable, and a font size button (which activates a
> drop down list of the five sizes) was added to the pool of available
> buttons, but not shown by default -- and it's still there in the IE 7
> betas.
>
You are correct. I was (mis)remembering old versions of IE, not Netscape.
Screen shot example here:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Internet_Explorer_2.0.png>
Nick
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