Sorry for the OT post but you guys always know the answer.
I logged onto the net just now to read the news, and found that most
of the regular websites I read (e.g. CNN, Yahoo, MLB, NYT, etc.)
display differently: the text size is much bigger, and the web pages
lop over the screen so that the horizontal scroll bar is needed. Just
a few hours ago the web pages fit the screen just fine. Other
websites (e.g. Wickipedia) display normally, as they used to.
I've checked the screen resolution on my video card (1152 X 864
pixels), sane as before. In IE, I've set the text sixe to "smallest",
but there's no change.
What am I missing?
Thanks a heap,
-Zz
Zz Yzx wrote:
> Sorry for the OT post but you guys always know the answer.
>
> I logged onto the net just now to read the news, and found that most
> of the regular websites I read (e.g. CNN, Yahoo, MLB, NYT, etc.)
> display differently: the text size is much bigger, and the web pages
> lop over the screen so that the horizontal scroll bar is needed. Just
> a few hours ago the web pages fit the screen just fine. Other
> websites (e.g. Wickipedia) display normally, as they used to.
>
> I've checked the screen resolution on my video card (1152 X 864
> pixels), sane as before. In IE, I've set the text sixe to "smallest",
> but there's no change.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks a heap,
Do you have a scroll wheel on your mouse?
If so, try (while on a web page in IE) pressing
and holding the <ctrl> key and rotating the
scroll wheel. This should allow you to vary the
font size "live".
"Zz Yzx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:29:08 -0500, "Greg Neill"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Zz Yzx wrote:
>>> Sorry for the OT post but you guys always know the answer.
>>>
>>> I logged onto the net just now to read the news, and found that most
>>> of the regular websites I read (e.g. CNN, Yahoo, MLB, NYT, etc.)
>>> display differently: the text size is much bigger, and the web pages
>>> lop over the screen so that the horizontal scroll bar is needed. Just
>>> a few hours ago the web pages fit the screen just fine. Other
>>> websites (e.g. Wickipedia) display normally, as they used to.
>>>
>>> I've checked the screen resolution on my video card (1152 X 864
>>> pixels), sane as before. In IE, I've set the text sixe to "smallest",
>>> but there's no change.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks a heap,
>>
>>Do you have a scroll wheel on your mouse?
>>If so, try (while on a web page in IE) pressing
>>and holding the <ctrl> key and rotating the
>>scroll wheel. This should allow you to vary the
>>font size "live".
>>
> Thanks Gerg, no luck, but I found the answer otherwise.
>
> -Zz
Hey Zz, don't be stingey. What's the answer??
[email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> In article <[email protected]>, Zz Yzx
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>What am I missing?
>>
>>I found the answer: Under the "VIEW" tab there's a line called "Zoom"
>>that had been switched from 100% to 125%; how I don;t know. Possibly
>>by the CRTL+ mis-keys.
>
> For future reference, in IE, Firefox, and Safari:
> Ctrl-plus zooms in
> Ctrl-minus zooms out
> Ctrl-zero resets to normal
>
> Opera is almost the same:
> plus zooms in
> minus zooms out
> Ctrl-zero resets to normal
>
Glad to see CTRL-0 is consistent among the browsers. It's much easier to
tell someone "Try pressing CTRL-0" rather than saying "What browser are
you running" (followed by "What's a browser?")
Puckdropper
--
Never teach your apprentice everything you know.
"Puckdropper" wrote
>
> Glad to see CTRL-0 is consistent among the browsers. It's much easier to
> tell someone "Try pressing CTRL-0" rather than saying "What browser are
> you running" (followed by "What's a browser?")
>
Ah, yes. The computer illiterate question.
I mentioned the word browser to an unusually dense (and attractive) young
woman once and she told me she didn't have a dog.
Many years ago I was trying to teach a computer phobic person how to use a
word processor. The kept grabbing the mouse like it was hot or something. I
asked what was the problem. She said that she was afraid of the mouse. I
asked why. She said, get ready for this, "It is a mouse, isn't it?"
Doug Miller wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>What am I missing?
>>
>>I found the answer: Under the "VIEW" tab there's a line called "Zoom"
>>that had been switched from 100% to 125%; how I don;t know. Possibly
>>by the CRTL+ mis-keys.
>
> For future reference, in IE, Firefox, and Safari:
> Ctrl-plus zooms in
> Ctrl-minus zooms out
> Ctrl-zero resets to normal
>
> Opera is almost the same:
> plus zooms in
> minus zooms out
> Ctrl-zero resets to normal
>
Also in Seamonkey.
--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
This is a test. Had it been an actual
attack, the warning system wouldn't
have worked.
Zz Yzx <[email protected]> writes:
> I logged onto the net just now to read the news, and found that most
> of the regular websites I read (e.g. CNN, Yahoo, MLB, NYT, etc.)
> display differently: the text size is much bigger, and the web pages
> lop over the screen so that the horizontal scroll bar is needed. Just
> a few hours ago the web pages fit the screen just fine. Other
> websites (e.g. Wickipedia) display normally, as they used to.
Some times I have to delete all of the temporary files and the
cookies.
Also IE 8 has different rendering models.
In fact, Microsoft screwed up so badly, they actually have a list of
websites that they update that has instructions on which rendering
engine IE should use.
In article <[email protected]>,
Lee Michaels <leemichaels*nadaspam*@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>"Puckdropper" wrote
>>
>> Glad to see CTRL-0 is consistent among the browsers. It's much easier to
>> tell someone "Try pressing CTRL-0" rather than saying "What browser are
>> you running" (followed by "What's a browser?")
>>
>
>Ah, yes. The computer illiterate question.
>
>I mentioned the word browser to an unusually dense (and attractive) young
>woman once and she told me she didn't have a dog.
>
>Many years ago I was trying to teach a computer phobic person how to use a
>word processor. The kept grabbing the mouse like it was hot or something. I
>asked what was the problem. She said that she was afraid of the mouse. I
>asked why. She said, get ready for this, "It is a mouse, isn't it?"
*Years* ago -- think 'Windows/386' days -- a friend talked about manufacturing
and selling a "joystick operated mouse" for _exactly_ that type of person.
He had several other products in the works --
a mouse-equivalent for mainframe systems; called 'a rat'.
one that worked in 3 dimensions -- for 3D modeling -- 'der fledermaus'
one that was built with the ball on the top, and the buttons on the
bottom -- it was a black-market mouse, you used it _under_ the table.
In article <[email protected]>, Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
>>What am I missing?
>
>I found the answer: Under the "VIEW" tab there's a line called "Zoom"
>that had been switched from 100% to 125%; how I don;t know. Possibly
>by the CRTL+ mis-keys.
For future reference, in IE, Firefox, and Safari:
Ctrl-plus zooms in
Ctrl-minus zooms out
Ctrl-zero resets to normal
Opera is almost the same:
plus zooms in
minus zooms out
Ctrl-zero resets to normal
In article <[email protected]>, Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Hey Zz, don't be stingey. What's the answer??
>
>Under "VIEW" there's a line for "Zoom", it had been changed from 100%
>to 125%. Probably by me accidentilly hitting CTRL+ at some point.
>
>See Goug's reply for details.
Greg -> Gerg
Doug -> Goug
Having a bad day at the keyboard? :-)
In article <[email protected]>, Gerald Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>Doug Miller wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>, Zz Yzx
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>What am I missing?
>>>
>>>I found the answer: Under the "VIEW" tab there's a line called "Zoom"
>>>that had been switched from 100% to 125%; how I don;t know. Possibly
>>>by the CRTL+ mis-keys.
>>
>> For future reference, in IE, Firefox, and Safari:
>> Ctrl-plus zooms in
>> Ctrl-minus zooms out
>> Ctrl-zero resets to normal
>>
>> Opera is almost the same:
>> plus zooms in
>> minus zooms out
>> Ctrl-zero resets to normal
>>
>Also in Seamonkey.
>
Anybody know how Chrome behaves in this respect?
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:29:08 -0500, "Greg Neill"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Zz Yzx wrote:
>> Sorry for the OT post but you guys always know the answer.
>>
>> I logged onto the net just now to read the news, and found that most
>> of the regular websites I read (e.g. CNN, Yahoo, MLB, NYT, etc.)
>> display differently: the text size is much bigger, and the web pages
>> lop over the screen so that the horizontal scroll bar is needed. Just
>> a few hours ago the web pages fit the screen just fine. Other
>> websites (e.g. Wickipedia) display normally, as they used to.
>>
>> I've checked the screen resolution on my video card (1152 X 864
>> pixels), sane as before. In IE, I've set the text sixe to "smallest",
>> but there's no change.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks a heap,
>
>Do you have a scroll wheel on your mouse?
>If so, try (while on a web page in IE) pressing
>and holding the <ctrl> key and rotating the
>scroll wheel. This should allow you to vary the
>font size "live".
>
Thanks Gerg, no luck, but I found the answer otherwise.
-Zz