I recently designed a web site, but have since noticed that it looks a bit dodgy on Windows systems with large fonts installed. I am hoping that there is a way to set the size of the font in a web page so that it remains the same regardless of whether the user has their display set to large or small fonts. Any thoughts?
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Windows Large Fonts
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For those who are interested, I found a solution to my problem. The CSS files that I was using to specify the font in my web pages specified the font using the size in pt (eg 10pt). I changed these values to the corresponding value in px (eg 13px), and the font then looked the same on machines with both Large Fonts installed and Small Fonts installed.
hey thats a good tip mrsnrub !!!
I had never heard of it, thanks for sharing !!! BobbaFet
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I had never heard of it, thanks for sharing !!! BobbaFet
Everyone has a right to my opinion.
E-mail me at caswegkamp@hotmail.com
As for me, I'm absolutely against this.
Think about people with disabilities.
Right now, when you are young and your sight is good, it doesn't matter to you. But what will be later? Go to any site with tiny letters that are very hard to see - the same thing is for those with sight problems who come to your site, even if it seems good enough for you.
Not allowing people to change the text size by their wish is very bad.
There are two options: allow users to set the text properties by their needs (ever if will affect badly on your design), or lose visitors.
P.S. By the way, Opera browser has marvelous zoom tool (this is one of it's unique features that I like) - it's zooms the intire page, like scaling images in graphic editors.
Think about people with disabilities.
Right now, when you are young and your sight is good, it doesn't matter to you. But what will be later? Go to any site with tiny letters that are very hard to see - the same thing is for those with sight problems who come to your site, even if it seems good enough for you.
Not allowing people to change the text size by their wish is very bad.
There are two options: allow users to set the text properties by their needs (ever if will affect badly on your design), or lose visitors.
P.S. By the way, Opera browser has marvelous zoom tool (this is one of it's unique features that I like) - it's zooms the intire page, like scaling images in graphic editors.
Starway,
Windows has utilities built in for just such people.
Im not sure if they are avilable for Mac an Unix too,
but I think I have seen some so it shouldnt pose any
problems.
Greetz, BobbaFet
Everyone has a right to my opinion.
E-mail me at caswegkamp@hotmail.com
Windows has utilities built in for just such people.
Im not sure if they are avilable for Mac an Unix too,
but I think I have seen some so it shouldnt pose any
problems.
Greetz, BobbaFet
Everyone has a right to my opinion.
E-mail me at caswegkamp@hotmail.com
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