Internet Explorer Text Size Frozen

Very interesting!

I'm on a W98 box at the moment. I see a similar response in IE.
When I change the text size, only some of the text on the page changes in size. On some pages, there is no change at all.

With Firefox, changing the text size changes the size of all of the text on the page.

The IE help menu listing for text size is a bit cryptic.
Unless you set up user defined style sheets, IE uses the font and text size defined by the author of the web page.

One way that you can reduce the text size is to switch your display settings to a higher resolution.

Myself, I have just found another reason to ditch IE and stick with Mozilla FireFox.

Chas

Chas you are right. It is based on the type of code used, whether Netscape compatible or just IE compitble tagging.

If the coder used absolute text resizing it will always remain th esame size as it is defined in Pixels or Points. 10Pt or 10Px etc.

If the coder created a page using images for buttons inetad of text, the text on th ebuttons will not resize either.

Using relative sizing is more browser friendly and allows body text to resize via the IE menu.
Relative text sizing is an issue many miss when building pages, which coupled with poor alt tagging, nested frame use etc. Makes the page user Un-friendly and adds to poor website psitioning in search engines.

There's SO much more to makina a browser/user/engine friendly site but that's the problem at hand I think.