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Nemo Oudeheis

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Aug 29, 2006, 9:55:49 PM8/29/06
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I put the following little HTML page on my internet website:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p style="color:red; background-color:gray; font-size:20pt">Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
</body>
</html>

I looked at this page with my laptop from home (HP zt3000 XP Pro SP2) and on
my machine at work (IBM desktop XP Pro SP2), both with Internet Explorer
"Version: 6.0.2900.2180.xpxp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 ... Update Versions:;SP2;".
(Different ISPs.)

Both home and office show the text with red text on a gray background for
Line 1, and default colors for Line 2:

Line 1
Line 2

When viewed from work, the text size on Line 1 is indeed changed; it is not
changed when viewed from home.

The only reasonable hypothesis I can form about how this could be is that,
despite the IE versions being the same on both machines, the actual parsing
of the CSS must be delegated to a DLL or other ancillary component, and on
my home machine this bit is buggy or down-rev or something.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks,

~Nemo


McKirahan

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Aug 29, 2006, 10:47:25 PM8/29/06
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"Nemo Oudeheis" <nik...@nigde.net> wrote in message
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What is each browser's Text Size set to? Look under View+Text Size.

Perhaps your browser at home has Text Size set to "Larger" or "Largest".


Nemo Oudeheis

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Aug 30, 2006, 7:01:09 AM8/30/06
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"McKirahan" <Ne...@McKirahan.com> wrote in message
news:isOdnXCRYKWuYWnZ...@comcast.com...

The browser's Text Size was set to Medium in both cases. Changing it to any
other of the range of values makes no difference to the result: Line1/Line2
are always output at the same height on my home computer; Line 1is always
bigger than Line 2 on my work computer.


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