change font size in stylesheet class

On 11 Oct 2004 01:13:23 -0700, lharby (AT) gmail (DOT) com (lharby) wrote:

Why do you feel compelled to reinvent the wheel, and make people
learn your interface instead of using the one in their browser?

I hate to disillusion people: the browser used in our company is IE,
and *none* of our staff will realise that they can affect the font
size through the browser, I can assure you. (Maybe one or two at
most).

People seem to think that once they have reached some level of
competence, skill and expertise that everyone will suddenly be up to
their level. (I too am guilty of this). But most of our users are very
IT illiterate.

Here we go again. When it comes to Word and Excel and PDF files, zooming
the text is considered completely normal. Many, probably a majority, of
the Word/Excel/PDF files I receive are set to something other than 100%.
And only a few of them come from IT people. But if one dares to suggest
that people can do exactly the same in a browser, one gets accused of
being obscure and difficult.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:10:42 +0100, Philip Ronan
<phil.ronanzzz (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:

On 11/10/04 9:13 am, lharby wrote:

I hate to disillusion people: the browser used in our company is IE,
and *none* of our staff will realise that they can affect the font
size through the browser, I can assure you. (Maybe one or two at
most).

So why don't you just write a page that shows people how to change the
default font size in IE?

Something like http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/main/adjust.html for
example?

Surely that's a better solution than what you seem to be attempting at the
moment?

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

JRS: In article <MPG.1bd06bc859d21cc898caa6 (AT) news (DOT) odyssey.net>, dated
Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:18:42, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown (AT) fastmail (DOT) fm> posted :

"lharby" <lharby (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:
I have managed to crib a javascript function that allows the user to
increase or decrease the font size of a page.

Why? Any decent browser can do this -- even a bad browser like MSIE
can do it to an extent.

Why do you feel compelled to reinvent the wheel, and make people
learn your interface instead of using the one in their browser?

<br>
<input type=button value="Font size"
onClick="this.value='Use Ctrl-Mousewheel; or View, Fonts'">
<br>

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"Toby Inkster" <usenet200410 (AT) tobyinkster (DOT) co.uk> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

Or better still, link to mine:
http://goddamn.co.uk/help/textsize/

The auto-detect is interesting. Normally I hate auto-detect, but I
think this one is okay since it says "but it could be wrong" and
provides links to the other possibilities.

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