Controlling Netscape View

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Controlling Netscape View

how to deal with 150%, etc.

jpcmaddog

9:31 pm on Mar 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

I was wondering if anyone can help me with a problem that I am having with Netscape. Is there any way that you can stop people from changing the view setting in their browser? When people change from 100% to 150% my site gets streched out.

I have a CSS that fixes the problem for Internet Explorer.

Thanks for you help.

gph

10:54 pm on Mar 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi, you can't stop it.

I posted this on another forum but never got an answer telling me whether or not it worked. They just want to know if there was a change. You'd have to add to it where the alerts are by re-adjusting the font size.

I don't really think it's a good idea. I think it would be easier to design for the possibility. I really think you should give this some thought. It looks to me to be a good way to code yourself into a corner.

This can be fined tuned to different font sizes


<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style>
#a {
font-size: 14px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span id="a">text</span>
<script>
font_size = 14
el_h = document.getElementById('a').offsetHeight - 2
if (el_h < font_size) {
alert('smaller')
}
if (el_h == font_size) {
alert('unchanged')
}
if (el_h > font_size) {
alert('bigger')
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

<edit> just looking at this, to work properly the font-family needs to be specified. Which is another possible stumbling block should the user be using their own CSS. </edit>

jpcmaddog

11:02 pm on Mar 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks for your advice. I have tried that before and it never helped. I guess the easiest thing to do just put a warning up for netscape users.

gph

11:17 pm on Mar 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

That was you :)

Just kidding, I think IE will eventually have something similar. Maybe even fairly soon in version 7.

To be honest, most of the web will look odd to someone surfing with something other than 100%. I think they'd be expecting it. Kind of like someone still using NN4x.

I wouldn't do anything.