Thanks, CS.
Your peeve is a reasonable one, but its cause is MS rather than web
designers. It is too much to assume standards will be followed across
the Internet, but for MS to have gone their own way was very annoying.
Back to my web pages and their fonts: it must be because I am using a
layout system that adjusts the type sizes automatically. It allows me
to adjust the size of the enclosing box (called Blocks, from www.yourhead.com
) to fit the layout. If I allow too little space for the enclosed
text it will shrink automatically. I'll get it right.
You might have gathered by now that the instructions you gave me were
superfluous: I don't use IE except when forced to do so at work, on
the MOD network ("RLI"). I use Macs everywhere but work ...
Chris
On 17 May 2009, at 13:42, CyberSimian wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> I should guess at IE being at fault, even if you are using v7.
>
> Opinions will no doubt vary, but in my view the problem is due to the
> designer of the web page making poor design decisions. (As you may be
> starting to realise, this is a pet peeve of mine.) However, you are
> not
> alone -- this is what the DP Review home page looks like on my WinXP/
> IE7
> system:
>
> http://www.xenscape.com/imaging/anon/dpreview.jpg
>
> These references may give you some insight as to the cause:
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/fontsize.html
> http://www.html-faq.com/csspresentation/?fixedfontsizeisevil
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020819.html
>
> I don't know whether IE6 can reproduce this, but with IE7 on WinXP
> do the
> following:
>
> (1) Right click the desktop.
> (2) Left click:
> Properties
> Settings
> Advanced
> DPI setting
> Large size (120dpi)
> (3) Start Internet Explorer and left click:
> Tools
> Internet Options
> Accessibility
> Ignore font sizes specified on web pages.
>
> -- from CyberSimian in the UK
>
> --
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