Internet Explorer Font Sizes

[Guest]

When I visit websites with Internet Explorer, the text formats are weird (too
small, too big, mis-justified, etc.). I have looked through all the Options
and can't find anything about "text formatting" or "use website defintions
for font sizing". Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[DJ Borell]

The only real options you have as the client for controlling text is Text
Size (sometimes) and encoding. These are located under the "View" command
on the main menu. For the most part, the server decides what you see.

 

[Pop]

No, the "server" does not control what you see. Usually the symptoms
described are because someone set the text size.
Under View, Text Size, click "Normal". That should straighten it out.
The size of the text you see is generally determined in one of two ways:
The setting for text size just mentioned, or by the page's author
setting/controlling it directly so you cannot change it. Some authors are
pretty egocentric about how their pages look and so control the text sizes
themselves. Rude, in my opinion, since I can't see well and they always opt
for tiny text. They think it makes their pages look shorter, I guess.

Pop

 

[Sam]

Apparently, _gnbubba12_, on 15/02/05 22:03,typed:

When I visit websites with Internet Explorer, the text formats are weird (too
small, too big, mis-justified, etc.). I have looked through all the Options
and can't find anything about "text formatting" or "use website defintions
for font sizing". Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I was having similar problems in IE (among many others) and switched to
Firefox (http://mozilla.org/firefox). Firefox gave me many new useful
options. Among them was the resizing of the visible text by just
pressing the CTRL key and moving the wheel of my mouse to enlarge/shrink
the text. The size of the text can be gradually increased/shrunk to
virtually any size, the mouse wheel acts as sort of a 'text size zoom'
button

This is in contrast to MSIE which gives only a handful(3?) text sizes as
options.

Give Firefox a shot, I am sure you will like it.

->HS