[WEB4LIB] text size in IE 5+

[Kevin W. Bishop]

This troubles me too and I expressed this same concern on this list (and 
others) just a few of weeks ago 
:  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0201/0138.html

At that time I didn't receive much feedback at all.  No one seems to know 
what makes IE (>5) default to "smaller" or "smallest" instead of 
"medium".  Microsoft's site wasn't helpful either.  Hopefully we'll sort it 
out this time?

I too am running Win2K but I've seen it happen on Win98 as well.

-kb


At 08:45 AM 1/31/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>This is something that has been really getting under my skin and I cannot
>figure out how to fix it.  Any time I launch my browser (IE version 5 and
>up), the text size resets to "smallest," so I always have to change it to
>"smaller" or "medium."  This is of course bothering me, but I am also
>concerned that this might be something IE consistently does, and in the
>case of public machines, this is not good.  Many sites render unreadable
>with text size set to "smallest."  Any suggestions?  In my current
>situation, I am running win2k and so are the public machines, if that makes
>any difference.  Thanks for any tips.
>
>-- jon
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Kevin W. Bishop
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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