Font sizes in IE (was: Carrie Bickner's "Sticky Sites on a Shoestring")

Chris Gray cpgray at library.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Mar 15 09:28:42 EST 2002


You can take back control of font sizes in IE by turning on the "Ignore
font sizes specified on Web pages" setting under Tools >> Internet Options
... >> Accessibility...  Then the View >> Text Size menus will work on any
page.

Chris Gray
Library Systems
University of Waterloo


On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Dan Lester wrote:

> Thursday, March 14, 2002, 3:14:22 PM, you wrote:
> 
> AIM> I had no problem increasing the font size on Mozilla 0.9.7.  Not sure if
> AIM> that's because Mozilla is disregarding a fixed font size or the
> AIM> competitors can't properly handle the style or something unrelated to
> AIM> either.  
> 
> I'd bet that it is that Mozilla is disregarding the fixed font size.
> 
> AIM> Maybe the small font size explains the need for glasses:
> 
> AIM> http://www.roguelibrarian.net/photo/decline.html
> 
> Could be.  But I have a contact AND glasses, and still barely legal,
> so....   No complaints, just the facts.
> 
> dan
> 
> 
> 
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