Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/29/42 11:47

Richard Thoms wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I don't get the meaning of "make it smaler on your
> display, not mine".

All modern graphical browsers (and even old ones like IE) have the
capability for the user to set a default display size. For example, in
Firefox, go to
Tools > Options > Content tab
Fonts & Colors, click Advanced button
Choose your own default fonts and sizes, including minimum size.

Then, if you use: body { font-size: 100%; } on your site, all your
visitors will view in their preferred size. Even IE users.

px (and pt) can't be resized in IE unless the user completely overrides
all sites' fonts, which most don't know how to do.

Note that using percents is safer than em. Some versions of IE have a
bug where if you use "1em" and a visitor resizes from, say, Smaller to
Medium, it will *double* the display rather than the small expected
increase.

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-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

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