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Font size bookmarklet

Scott Johnson (and others) has been waging war against Font Bitches, aka people who use fixed (pixel) fonts on their sites making the text unresizable in Internet Explorer. Here’s a new bookmarklet that can help alleviate the problem:

Make fixed fonts resizable in IE (drag it on to your links bar and use it on any offending pages, then resize text with ctrl+mouse wheel).

Posted 1st September 2002 at 12:10 pm

This is Font size bookmarklet by Simon Willison, posted on 1st September 2002.

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Love the resizer bookmarklet. Can you make one that will force all text on a page to be rendered as black? You know, for boxesandarrows and all the other 'hip' designer web sites that are impossible to read? A bookmarklet is needed so that users can override font settings on a site-by-site basis (and not buy digging into detailed browser preference settings).
Jack - 9th September 2002 05:51 - #

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