I want the size of the text in the browser to be constant even though
we change font textsize in I.E by going to view->"text size" ->largest
 and also in netscape4.7 by going to view->increase font

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Clarification of Question by anil18-ga on 20 May 2004 09:56 PDT

I want the size of the text in the browser to be constant even though
we change font textsize in I.E by going to view->"text size" ->largest
 and also in netscape4.7 by going to view->increase font

Take example of http://java.sun.com

The font size for the above website  won't change in I.E 5.5 or in
Netscape 4.0 even though you change setting of font size in I.E by
going to view->"text size"->largest  or in Netscape 4.0 by going to
view->"increase font"

Hi anil18-ga you need to provide some more information such as your
operating system and it would help to know why you want to do this.

I do not have a solution ready to use and perhaps some one else can
provide that based on this approach.

A possible solution is to run a program called a filtering proxy on
the computer and then set up your browser so that all request from the
browser that normally go to the web directly, go through the proxy
first. this would allow you to then Configure the proxy to rewrite the
html tags that deal with fonts so that they will all be the same size.
I would imagine that this would cause problems with a small percentage
of pages, but should be very few.

Take a look at Privoxy to do this http://www.privoxy.org/ you may need
to get someone to do the configuration and/or write the filter to do
this.

On the other hand if what your after is just make things bigger on the
screen so that they will be easyer to read then try using a
bookmarklet see

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ 
specifically 
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.html#zoom_layout
look for zoom_layout

and from

http://www.sam-i-am.com/work/bookmarklets/
specifically 
http://www.sam-i-am.com/work/bookmarklets/dev_debugging.html
look for Zoom In, Zoom Out

Best of luck.

This is very easy to do within a Style-Sheet, which is supported by
both versions (and later) of Netscape and IE that you require.

You need to set your font size to a definitive pixel size, rather than
by point size, in the style sheet. This will ensure that the font is
always displayed at that pixel size irrespective of the user's and
program font scaling.

For example, use the following code in your Style Sheet:

BODY	{font-size: 8px;}

This will set the font size of the BODY element to 8 pixels.

For more information and examples on how to use Style Sheets, see this:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/quick-tutorial.html

Hope this helps.

Are you wanting to ensure that a web page you are building will appear
the same. Or pages you open are the same.

To ensure that any page opens on your PC in the same font size. This
will not affect other users.

IE. 5.5
Tools | Internet Options | Accessibility button in the bottom right.
Put a check mark in Ignore font sizes specified on Web Pages.

Netscape Nav 4.7
Click on Edit then Preferences 
Click on Appearance  then Fonts. 
'Ignore font styles specified'