Posted by Stan McCann on 04/02/06 07:00

Norman Swartz <swartz@sfu.ca> wrote in
news:Xns97987A98B280Dswartzsfuca@64.59.144.76:
> In IE, when one clicks on the font-size selector icon and chooses
> a display size (e.g. "smallest" or "largest"), the on-screen text
> remains exactly at 16 points.

Due to a bug in IE. The user *should* be able to increase/decrease
font size as needed.

> But when one does the equivalent in Firefox (e.g. pressing
> <ctrl>- or <ctrl>+ ) the on-screen text changes in size.

As it should.

> How can I force Firefox to observe the font-size specification
> in the <style>...</style> definition?
>

Thankfully, you can't. And why would you want to anyway? 16pt might
be fine for your eyes but totally wrong for mine. Who's looking at
your site? Just you?

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