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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 06/09/07 21:33
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Ed Jensen <ejensen@visi.com>
writing in news:136m3c3do0etge8@corp.supernews.com:
> Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Why is it that IT web sites seem to always use the smallest font
>> possible? I went to one today and had to sign up to view an article.
>> All the input boxes had tiny text. This was a Windows IT site, so
>> probably they think that only IE people are using it, and those poor
>> people can't adjust px text sizes. Thank goodness I use Opera.
>>
>> Rant over. Thanks, I feel better.
>
> I know a lot of people (including myself) that aren't too happy about
> the small font sizes that seem so popular on web sites these days.
>
> The way I deal with it is by using Firefox and the View -> Text Size
> -> Increase feature. Increasing the font size one or two steps
> usually does the job. It usually also causes the web site to render
> slightly incorrectly, but I guess you can't have everything!
>
Yup, I use Opera, so it's not an issue for me either. It's just a PITA -
I don't WANT to have to increase the font size - the font size should be
that to which my system is already set. I know what I can read, they
don't.
Rant over - again.... tune in next time, same HTML-Time, same HTML-
Channel.
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