On 1/30/03 14:18, Mledie at aol.com wrote >I, like Troy, would like to enlarge the letters in my browser window. I am >running 9.2.2 on my G4 laptop. I had to enlarge everything else. Displays >seem to be much smaller in general than on my old machine.
The browser changes could be happening because of browsers using 96dpi rather than the old standard of 72 dpi (which would then be close to the 72+ points per inch for printing). If the sites you are viewing have their own style sheets which state how large the type should be, and they give this size in points rather than pixels, you're stuck with the smaller letters. If you want a universal upsizing, you could reduce the resolution of your monitor (OS X has this in display preference pane in the system preferences). >New question, though: When I copy and paste an address into my broswser window, I >often get some extra letters and numbers displayed, wich are not in the original. >It seems to have something to do with HTML, because they inevitably have this % >sign with them. The % sign is for 'escaping' special characters which are unfriendly to html. These can be things like spaces (which become %20), backslashes (which become %05, I think) and the like. I wouldn't be surprised if there are other things which could creep in if other non-standard ASCII characters (like letters and numbers) get used. Things like umlauts or diacriticals, fer instance. >I so often got the "Site noy found" message, although I >knew that must be wrong. Then I detected this extra letter-number combination >somewhere in the middle of the address, and surely, after removeing it, all >was well. However, this happens rather frequently. What might be the cause? I'd be guessing non-standard ascii characters in file names for the web sites. Might be wrong, though. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
