Re: DHTML menus and Windows fonts

It is already using a combination of CSS, JavaScript and the DOM to
incorporate itself into the pages.  This particular setting in Windows
overrides CSS sizes, whether they be in pixels or points.   It appears that
this is something I'm simply going to have to live with --I can only
"suggest" to users my font size, it seems.  It also appears I'm in good
company:  this Windows font size toggle (not the browser font size toggle)
also disrupts similar types of navigation on a variety of well-known sites,
including MSNBC.com.   Ultimately the end user has the final say in what the
font size should be and I suppose that's just as well.

Thanks for all the comments; I've closed the book on this one.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Bullock" <michelle(at)sandbox.co.nz>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: DHTML menus and Windows fonts


> I get the list, so this might be a bit late...
>
> Try using CSS to set the font size. Sometimes you have to play around a
bit
> to get it working in both Netscape and IE, but it should be do-able. I
know
> I'll get the usual "that sucks for people with bad eyesight"...
>
> Michelle
>
> Website: www.sandbox.co.nz
> Email: michelle(at)sandbox.co.nz
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 20:57:02 +0000
> > From: Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>
> > Subject: Re: DHTML menus and Windows fonts
> >
> > At 14:20 03/01/02 -0500, Mike Taylor wrote:
> > >Does anyone know of a way to override these fonts settings or is it
> > >hopeless?
> >
> > You could use graphics for the menus, but I'd advise against it.
> >
> > Generally if someone has changed their display settings it is because
they
> > have a good reason to - probably because they need the text to be bigger
> to
> > read. Before I got my glasses I needed my PC set to Large Fonts just so
I
> > could use menus.
> >
> > If you have a url we could look at other ways of dealing with the
problem.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > - --
> > http://aamcf.co.uk/
> >
> > ------------------------------
>
>
>

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