UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I have to say i have been away from here for a few days. Been very busy building and trying to grow my new forum.


http://www.ITprob.com

And i have also been doing a quick refresher course of HTML as i am about to move to xHTML and dHTML finally. Oh yer been doing some more of my MCP as well.

Nice forum... but could I make a suggestion?

Look at the front page of your forum using IE under windows (as about 90% of people do).

Hold down CTRL, and waggle the mouse wheel. Notice that some text resizes, and most of it doesn't? That's a bug in your CSS. Pretty much all text should be resizable in this way.

Failure to do sois also "probably" illegal under the DDA, as you are discriminating against people with poor vision... i.e. us!

PM me if you need any help with this... but it should be fairly trivial

Well done, Jay

What is xhtml?



Andrew

ps, just to let you know that I use neither IE, nor windows, but that I found it very easy to resize the font on your site.

Andrew,

Yes, that's because you're using Safari. It (sensibly) takes the attitude that the programmer has coded something illegal (in some countries) and stupid (everywhere) and will allow all fonts to be resized.

Internet Explorer was coded by Microsoft. Their attitude is that if the programmer wants the fonts on his site to be resizable he will code it as such. If he wants 8 point text, then give him 8 point text, and don't let the user resize it... as it might make the page design a little messy.

My view is that if I can't read the text on the page, I don't care if the layout is a little messy. I'll go away and read some other page.

Unfortunately, most web sites are built using Macs, and many are not tested on IE rigourously enough. Safari currently has 2% of the browser market. IE has just under 90%.

Of course, the browser to actually get it right is Opera. It acknowleges the concerns that Microsoft had, and simply gets round that by resizing the graphics as well as the text!

Just done a test and i can see what you mean. I just expected it to work in IE as 99% of things do. I use AOL and Firefox myself and its fine in there. Looks like i have more CSS

You see, there really is an advantage in not being clever enough to use Windows.



I like my Mac

Andrew

Jayboi,

Yes, it should be quite simple. Rather than code "font-size: 8" code something like "font-size: small" instead.

You can go from xxx-small via medium to xxx-large in CSS, or in a font tag (how quaint) from -7 to +7 for relative font sizes. IE will be happy then.

All the best