MSIE 5 for Mac released

[Leo Robert Klein]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, "Thomas Dowling" wrote:

>The most prominent feature I've heard mentioned so far is that it defaults
>to a 16pt type size.  Some web designers, whose hearts may be in the right
>place but whose heads sure aren't, are already doing JavaScript sniffing,
>and decreasing the font size when they detect Mac IE5.  However, the
>larger out-of-the-box font setting may be spurring a greater percentage of
>users to change their defaults than is usually the case.  The result could
>be some really tiny print when the two trends collide.
>

Frankly, it's a mess because 16pt is way too large for a Mac screen.  After
some fiddling, I found that 14pt with a 96 dpi screen most closely
resembles the equivalent on IE for Windows.

Also, by the way, the mac(topia) version of IE doesn't seem to use
favicons.  Is this the end of favicons?  Can I ditch ours?

LEO

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