I need adsense ...

... to pay for my new glasses

[KenS]

Adsense is encouraging some counter helpful behavior all over the internet. The latest craze being writing entire sites with the same font size as the Adsense blocks.

I have a super size resolution monitor and Adsense uses a small font – this behaviour is making scrutiny of such sites a painful experience. I’m going cross eyed.

[PumpkinHead]

Or hold down Ctrl and use your scroll wheel ;)

[sirkei]

That is really true. i was thinking of putting all texts on my site to look the same size as adsense ads. But the font is quite small and if i set a fixed width, guess visitors may frown upon it.

But there is an increasing of websites using the same size as adsense fonts. might not be a good trend,

[dutch_dude]

Or hold down Ctrl and use your scroll wheel

Won't work on many sites in Internet Explorer sadly. (Just checked my own and it does not work) That's why I said to get a better browser. It is a typical complaint of users of that browser with huge resolution screens.

[edited by: Woz at 12:38 am (utc) on June 22, 2005]
[edit reason] Tidying up [/edit]

[incrediBILL]

Set the monitor to 800 x 600 grandpa and it won't be an issue :)

I normally use 1280 x 1024 and already needed glasses for the screen because of farsightedness, so I got a second prescription with a wee bit of magnification just for "reading" so it doesn't bother me any more.

[jetteroheller]

Set the monitor to 800 x 600 grandpa and it won't be an issue :)

I use 1400x1050 on 15"

[PumpkinHead]

Won't work on many sites in Internet Explorer sadly. (Just checked my own and it does not work) That's why I said to get a better browser. It is a typical complaint of users of that browser with huge resolution screens.

Any idea why? It seems to work on every website I've tried. I'd like to know how to stop this as this would be good to know.

[ann]

My solution is to simply hit the back button and go to a website with the same type of info that I CAN read....works for me.

Ann

[rubenski]

Any idea why? It seems to work on every website I've tried. I'd like to know how to stop this as this would be good to know.

I believe this has to do with how font-size is implemented in CSS. I am not sure, so please let me do some testing...

I have it: set font-size in pixels in your CSS and the CTRL + scrollwheel font adjustment won't work. At least not in IE.

[Skinny]

That's exactly correct.

I just checked my site's code and I had set it to a specific font in CSS (i.e. font-size: xpt)

When I removed that Internet Explorer does increase the font size when you press control + scroll the scrolly thing on your mouse.

So I guess you have to remove the font size you stipulated in CSS.

[BetterSEO]

Set the font size in em's and it will work.

[dutch_dude]

em have their own problems. setting size in pixels is usually best in my opinion although some disagree :)

Anyway I dont care if a far sighted person chooses to use a browser on my site that can't even resize properly. All browsers do better, but Opera is especially good at it.

[incrediBILL]

I use 1400x1050 on 15"

On a 15" monitor?

Does insanity run in the family?

I have a 19" monitor and 1400x1050 looks pretty decent until it's after 11PM and my eyes are tired so I took it down a notch to 1200x1024 which seems to work just fine all day long :)

[jardin]

1920x1200 here, but the screen is 24" so it looks alright.

[edward301]

When burning the midnight oil I have to increase text size using my browser and reduce the screen brightness as it strains my eyes, especially if im reading large ammounts of text or code.

I have a 19" on 1920x1200 but it can go higher I just dont see the point in day to day use.

1400x1050 on 15"

thats totally random :D

[moltar]

1152x864 on 21" and I have 20/20 vision.