Hi Michel,

Yesterday I fired up IE on a machine that I haven't accessed the net with for quite a while (both my 'regular' machines weren't connecting so I tried that one too to check).

Anyway, the very first thing that I noticed was that the font size was much bigger than on either of the other machines.

After reading yours today I decided to take a closer look. Now I'm only more perplexed, but here's what I found:
Update I just found that machine "C" below has "Large Fonts" set. Seems amazing, though, that that setting alone would make such a difference, considering the other settings between the 3 machines (both others have "small fonts")
Update#2(I really like that UT feature) I set machine "A" to Large Foonts and rebooted and it now has nice big fat juicy fonts for UT display. Will have to see what it might mess up, though. So no more mystery.

MACHINE A - This machine displays UT in smallish but acceptable font size
Win98 SE
IE 5.50.4522.1800, update version: SP1; Q279328; Q286043; Q299618
View-->Text Size: medium
Display adapter settings: 32-bit colour; 1024x768 resolution (Matrox G400)
Monitor: 17" DELL

MACHINE B - This machine displays UT in small and only barely acceptable font size
Win2000 Professional
IE 5.50.4522.1800, update version: SP1; Q279328; Q286043; Q299618
View-->Text Size: larger
Display adapter settings: 32-bit colour; 1400x1050 resolution (ATI Mobility)
Monitor: It's a DELL notebook (Latitude) with 15" display

MACHINE C - This machine displays UT in nice big and very acceptable font size
WinME
IE 5.50.4522.1800, update version: SP1; Q299618
View-->Text Size: smaller
Display adapter settings: 32-bit colour; 1024x768 resolution (MAtrox Millennium)
Monitor: 15" Sony (old but still very crisp and clear)

Machine "C" is the anomoly here and I wonder what makes it the way it is?!?!?!?

I'm going to start using that machine regularly, I can tell you that.

Cheers,

JimN



>I had a user once who made everything various shades of purple and then wondered why some things in the app were hard to see. :) Letting the user choose per app is a good idea. I like having different colours so everything doesn't look the same, but _I_ want to be able to choose them.
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>I don't like the menu bar, either, but this site is to valuable to leave just because he keeps screwing with the UI, so I deal with it.
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>If you really want to check your site, go into accessibility options and set it to ignore font sizes, then crank up the textsize and see how it looks. That's how I run because there's too many sites out there that force the fontsize and then textsize doesn't matter.
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>Michelle
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>>There's been several discussions here about allowing the application to modify screen colours or only use the windows colour set & only allow users to modify that themselves through the control panel. I go the application specific way, use suitable defaults but allow the operator to select colours for the individual application. Relying on the global windows colour set to be suitable for all applications, I think, is bound not to suit all applications.
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>>I have a problem with the menu bar that this site uses, both on size/colour grounds, also on separation of the new messages with/without global refresh & also some of the icons are not intuitive (clicking on the printer to get a list of reports ?)
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>>(Just checked, my site works with fonts "larger" & "largest", but just found a bug using IE4, something to fix this weekend)