IE's base font size upon install

[Kevin W. Bishop]

Can anyone affirm whether Internet Explorer, any version, installs itself 
with "medium" or "smaller" as its base font size?

I would think it would be "medium," but I've heard stories similar to my 
own situation where, upon launch, everything is usually rendered as 
"smaller".  Perhaps I adjusted the settings and closed it as "smaller" the 
first time I launched the app. and that changed the default settings?

My concern is what might we expect from those who use IE and do not know 
how to adjust their font sizes ... at which font size are they most likely 
to see my web pages if they don't fiddle with their settings?

Thanks.
-kb



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Kevin W. Bishop
Communication & Collaboration Technologies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
<bishopk at rpi.edu> | <http://www.rpi.edu/rpinfo/>