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Does anyone know of any techniques to detect the users selection of text size in their IE browser. I don't think it's possible but it's something which crossed my mind.


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I'm not sure it's possible either. I have yet to actually care what font size most people are running.. although that may change soon. It's best to design for any font size, so it doesn't matter. Unfortunately, that can be quite difficult.

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Yeah its odd. I tested something out. First I made my font display the largest and on google the text was large, however my service providor's website had no changes, http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/index.jsp

I think there may be a javascript routine to detect this but im not sure how it would work out.
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nah.. if the site sets the font size using pixel measurements instead of em/pt/%/whatever.. they'll remain the same, most of the time.
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