[WEB4LIB] Re: text size in IE 5+

[Robin Boulton]

This appeared to fix it for me too; however it had the unfortunate side 
effect of disabling hyperlinks in emails, so I had to turn it back on.


At 07:33 AM 2/4/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>I'd like to thank Stef Morrill for suggesting a fix to the problem that, in
>my case, worked.  In short, de-selecting "Use Microsoft's viewer" for the
>Message Window properties in Eudora's Toolbox did the trick.
>
>Here's the reply:
>
>===
>I don't know if this is exactly the same problem, but...
>
>We were seeing this problem with some of our staff machines with Eudora 5.1
>on them.  If Eudora was set to use the Microsoft viewer, IE would go back
>to using the smaller font every time the browser was launched, no matter
>what the font was set to before.  Once the Microsoft viewer was turned off,
>everything was dandy.  You can also add this line to the eudora.ini, if you
>want to continue to use Microsoft viewer:
>
>SeparateMSHTMLSettings=1
>===
>
>-kb
>
>
>At 10:44 AM 2/2/2002 -0800, Rachel Singer Gordon wrote:
> >This happens on my home machine and on a number of them at work -- IE
> >5.5 and Win98SE. A second window will always launch with the
> >"smaller" font if I am loading another program at the same time or
> >occasionally if something intensive (java, whatever) is still loading
> >in the first IE window when I hit ^N. I just added the text size
> >button to the toolbar so that it's easily changed back.
> >
> >- Rachel
> >
> > >>Not only does (just mine?) IE not remember which font size I
> > >specified
> > >>during its last session, it doesn't seem to remember from one
> > >instance to
> > >>the next.
> > >
> > >>This morning I launched the browser, it loaded my home page in
> > >"medium."  A
> > >>new window (Ctrl N) loaded the same page in "smaller".  ??
> > >
> > >That's weird.  My first thought was something like the mandatory
> > >profiles
> > >suggested by others, but this sounds more like some other software
> > >is messing
> > >with your settings.
> > >
> > >The only thing I can think of is to wipe a machine and only install
> > >IE 5 or 6
> > >and whatever drivers you need for basic functionality.  (I had to do
> > >this
> > >during a recent battle with Norton AntiVirus 2002 and flat-screen
> > >Gateways with
> > >Radeon cards.)  Does IE default to Medium?  Does this change at some
> > >point?
> > >
> > >If that doesn't work, perhaps those having the problem should
> > >compare specs and
> > >see what they have in common.
> >
> >---
> >Rachel Singer Gordon / rsinger at linc.lib.il.us
> >http://www.franklinparklibrary.org
> >http://www.lisjobs.com
> >---
>
>_________________________________________
>Kevin W. Bishop
>Communication & Collaboration Technologies
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
><bishopk at rpi.edu> | <http://www.rpi.edu/rpinfo/>