Hi all,
I know by now the very strict rule of avoiding "px" font sizing as much as possible because IE will not size them up or down, but I'm finding an awful lot of people are using IE in the smaller and small size settings and not even knowing about it. In fact I had one guy tell me I should be redesigning a website he regularly visits because it's too small and on inspection I realised they were following the standards, its just that he had his IE set on text-size:smaller. My own IE opens as a default on smaller (its very frustrating)
The smaller settings seem irrelevant to most webpages, I have never gone to my netscape zoom and scaled a website down, because there's almost never any reason to.
So my question is, how do you design a website that will look compact and nice at a normal size, BUT -will not be tiny in IE for those who don't realise they have it set to small AND doesn't break the standard. I'm very tempted to stick a fixed font size at the start of my stylesheet. Is there another way?
Thanks guys, this is really bugging me.
Duncan
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