Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Re: An article about web browsing security

[Hartmut Beil]

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Ed.

I am in the Website Building Business since long.

The font issue is something we developers are aware of , but we fight against Designers who want their designs exactly to their specs, even when the product becomes unusable.

So with the help of style sheets font sizes are fixed to fit into the designed pages no matter what.

 

What you can do in Internet Explorer to disable the fixed font sizes is:

 

Under Tool ---> Internet options click on the Accessibility button lower right.

Click Ignore font sizes specified on web pages.

 

Problem solved.

 

You will notice though that some designed pages will not look as intended, but who cares as long as you can read them.

 

Hartmut

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From: Ed Burkhead

To: Coupe-List

Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:22 PM

Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Re: An article about web browsing security

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Yo, Microsoft Guys, Tom and Mitch,

 

What a great idea.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t get your text size changing to work on the websites that are a problem.

 

It seems that more and more websites are trying for artistic control by specifying the text size based on pixels.  Many or most of these idiots base their pixel-text size on 800x600 displays.  Even with only 1024x768, some text is uncomfortably small.  On my 19” monitors with 1280x1024, too many websites are unreadable.

 

On websites that specify the size by pixels, the <View> <Text size> options don’t change the text size.  Here’s an example of a typical problem website:

http://www.xprize.com

http://www.challengers101.com/ChProjHome.html

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecasts/ILZ037.php?warncounty=ILC179&city=East+Peoria

 

And, yes, the cntl-<mouse-roll> does change size on text specified as standard sizes, but I sure haven’t found any way to change it on more-and-more websites.  Examples of text size done right are: Tom’s http://www.ercoupers.com   Mitch’s http://www.ercoupe.org and my http://edburkhead.com

 

If you can find a way to change the body text size on websites like those problem ones, please let me know.  I’ve stayed loyal to IE for years until the small text size issue overcame me – browsing with IE just became intolerable.

 

 

As to the security issue, that article I referenced originally said there are IE security issues that Microsoft wasn’t going to fix immediately and that’s scary.  Do you have more (or conflicting) information?  (Sure hope so.)

 

I use the automatic update download tool so I get my updates and install them promptly.  I’ve always felt quite safe with having an up-to-date system and nothing has infected me in 20 years of active communicating.

 

Your help is appreciated.

 

 

Ed Burkhead

http://edburkhead.com/

ed -at- edburkheadQQQ.com    (change -at- and remove the QQQ)

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Laird-McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:38 PM
To: Georgia Trehey; flyin@ercoupers.com
Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Re: An article about web browsing security

 

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Ed, Just FYI, if you hold CTRL and scroll with the mouse button it will
change the size of text in IE.

-Tom
p.s. Before you switch to Netscape consider: Ercoupers.com is funded by IE
(did I mention I work for Microsoft? <grin>)

 

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