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Posted by Chaddy2222 on 04/03/06 14:58
Andy Dingley wrote:
> Stan McCann wrote:
> > 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.
>
> (For once) this isn't an IE bug. It isn't a requirement to be able to
> scale a physical dimension (points, pixels, inches) because the
> stylesheet already sets this. Of course the desktop needs some degree
> of one-off configurability to match the physical size of the screen to
> what an "inch" represents. Windows and IE happen to break this quite
> badly for font-sizing, but that's a separate bug.
Just to add to this IE font re-sizeing issue.
By default, you can't re size specified fonts. But their are some
settings that you can change in the configuration which allow you to do
this.
Simply go to Tools and click on Internet Options, then choose the
accessibility option, just near the settings tab. Then check the box
that says, "ignore fonts specified on web pages". Then you can quite
happily change the font size.
> In practice though, legions of ignorant web developers mis-used this
> feature so badly that Firefox has applied a hack on the basis of the
> lesser of two evils. FF now allows scaling of font sizes, even when
> specified in absolute units. This isn't incorrect (it's not forbidden
> anywhere) but nor is it a recommended behaviour, according to a purist
> readindg of the standards.
Read my comments above regards MS IE.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc
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