High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

re: High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

Mike Dimmick — Wed, 05 May 2004 10:07:00 GMT

In the spirit of Bookmarklets (e.g. http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/), you can also create a new shortcut with the URL set to:

javascript:(function(){document.body.style.zoom="200%";}())

Creating the anonymous function probably isn't necessary, but it seems to work.

re: High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

Dejan Jelovic — Wed, 05 May 2004 13:54:00 GMT

Or you can just use Mozilla FireFox which has this functionality built in. A godsend for us with 150 DPI laptops.

re: High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

Mike Dunn — Thu, 06 May 2004 06:49:00 GMT

I would do anything for a command/setting/whatever to have the View->Text Size menu have an effect when the web page specifies its font size in pixels. I don't mind if the layout gets hosed, I would just like to be able to read the bloody text.

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jeffdav's WebLog — Fri, 07 May 2004 01:43:00 GMT

Extending the Internet Explorer context menu

The Old New Thing — Mon, 24 May 2004 17:03:00 GMT

It's just script.

re: High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

Centaur — Mon, 24 May 2004 14:32:00 GMT

Mike Dunn

You just check that “Ignore font sizes” box in the Internet Options | Accessibility. The layout gets hosed, but you get to control the font size.

Or, in Mozilla Firefox, you can set the minimum font size you agree with. Anything lower will be grown to your specified minimum. (Might be a good idea to steal that for IE?)

re: High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

Marc Wallace — Mon, 24 May 2004 16:38:00 GMT

Mike: or just use client-side stylesheets. I have a stylesheet that basically overrides everything with !important, forcing everything times-new-roman 14pt. I started by attaching it to [font], but that doesn't deal with inline styles... better to apply it to every element.

re: High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

follow instructions here — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:13:00 GMT

follow these and never have to worry about dpi in IE again...

re: High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

Chris Hester — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:12:00 GMT

Fascinating stuff! You guys might be interested in this post I made on this topic, along with a potentially useful demo aimed at creating a usable zoom feature for IE:

http://www.designdetector.com/archives/04/07/IECanZoomPagesLikeOpera.php

Wish me luck.

re: High DPI in IE: Tip & Mystery Solved

Bruce Boughton — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:38:00 GMT

MIke: Why not prompt for the required zoom factor?

e.g./ Bookmarlet:
javascript:(function(){factor = prompt("Please choose a percentage zoom factor (100% is actual size):",100);document.body.style.zoom=factor+"%";}())

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