[thelist] Re: font size

[Diane Soini]

Hmm. You don't see this problem at all. I see it everywhere. Actually, 
we all see it at the company I work for. So now I am wondering if it 
has something to do with our company's browsers. I have heard that some 
companies modify the IE browser in some ways for security and other 
purposes. Our company has done this. The browsers we all use have our 
company logo instead of the IE logo in the top right corner. I don't 
know what else they've done other than that, but I do vaguely recall a 
few years ago we were all having a problem with something and our 
modified browsers were suspected as being the culprit. So perhaps there 
is something else going on here.

Unfortunately, that doesn't solve anything. Even though we are a 
software company, our employees are just as novice as the most novice 
Internet users out there, and when they see these types of things 
happen they freak out. It's cooky, but I often have to design for the 
Project Manager and CTO who have the strangest ideas about usability 
and what looks right, but I don't get to design for the end users (?!).

Thanks
Diane
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:23 AM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

> i saw it just fine on one of the urls you posted (simon willison's 
> blog).  i
> don't have time to dig into it, but i suspect it's a particular 
> combination
> of absolutely positioned elements, font-size unit combinations (like 
> em and
> keywords), and the styling applied to links (specifically the :active
> state).
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