Posted by Cerebral Believer on 03/25/06 17:03

Hi all,

I am keen to allow people who view my site to be able to resize the text in
their browsers (especially for people who need to read larger text). With
my old web-page I specified the point size in the HTML code, and noticed
that when using Internet Explorer the text could not be resized. In
designing my new site I have chosen to express the text sizes as percentages
in a stylesheet, e.g.

..side_panel_title {
font : bold 50% 'Trebuchet MS',
'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
color : #990000;
}
..side_panel_text {
font : 50% 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida
Grande', Arial, sans-serif;
color : #373737;
}

I did this thinking that the viewers of my web-pages would be able to select
larger font sizes for viewing by adjusting their browser text settings.
However, when the page is rendered in Internet Explorer, the text only
appears in a readable size (the size I actually designed the page) when the
"View | Text Size | Largest" setting is selected. I had thought that users
would be able to increase the size text to a larger size than the sizes I
used to design the page in order to make the text easier to read - that is
what I want to achieve, that is the same effect as on the w3org site
http://www.w3.org/. What am I doing wrong? Or is what I am trying to
achieve not possible (this way)?

Regards,
C.B.

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