Eisboch wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message
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Interesting. I'm sure no html coder and don't understand the different
affect that changing the font size has on Yahoo and other sites. I
thought CTRL +/- just changed font size. Obviously it does something a
little different. BTW, CTRL +/- will not have affect on images.

One thing I have read is that Firefox is written to exact W3C standards
and Internet Explorer is not. MS takes liberties with the standard in IE
were it suits their interests. Some very small minority of coders make
sure their sites work properly in IE and don't really care if they do in
FF. This may change as FF becomes more popular. For that reason there are
a couple of sites I visit everyday that I have to use IE for them to work
correctly.


Ahhh... your comments made my rememberer work a bit. I recall that when I
first started using Firefox several years ago (early versions) often there
were websites that did not display properly and I'd shift over to IE to view
them. It had nothing to do with add-ons like Java or anything, it was
simply the way that Firefox displayed the html code. I haven't noticed it
as much (or at all) anymore and had forgotten about the early differences
between Firefox displays and IE displays of the same code. Perhaps the code
writers are paying more attention to Firefox.

I think you have probably hit upon an explanation as to why the two browsers
format Yahoo's homepage differently, and it's also likely the reason there
is nothing in "about:config" that would relate to it. Oh well, it's not a
big deal anyway. I'll just continue hitting Ctrl+.

Eisboch




Try the adjustment I most recently mentioned. When I mess with it, I can
change the size of the font without changing the actual font. The best
thing you can do, though, is to dump the Yahoo page. It just slows
everything down with messy code, ads, and suchlike.