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Re: Lovely Improvement but...
by Steve on Monday 03/Mar/2003, @01:49

I bet you're using IE, aren't you?

In Konqueror and Mozilla, you can explicitly set the preferred font size, but in IE you're restricted to View->Text Size. I couldn't find a way of changing "normal" in IE to be a smaller font size, and if I use "smaller" some sites are too small. IE has no minimum font size either.

I fixed it for me by not using IE. You can't do that for other people though, so on my sites I did this in the style sheet for IE users only:

body, td, th { font-size: 80%; }

All of the other font sizes must then be relative and not explicit (eg: "larger", "smaller" or "xx%" instead of "normal", "large" etc). Other elements will inherit the parent element's font size, and adjustments will be relative to the inherited size.

I think the KDE site would benefit from doing the same.

-- Steve

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Re: Lovely Improvement but...
by Jim Dabell on Monday 03/Mar/2003, @02:43

You want to watch out when using hacks like that. The default font-size for IE 4 - 6 (in quirks mode) is small, which makes the 80% very small indeed.

If you only test in IE 6 (in standards-compliant mode), you won't catch this, as it uses the proper default, medium.

Why not just let your users view the site using the setting they want?

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