- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spinsol.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:40:04 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > When I increase the font size (using functionality > built into the browser) on either Opera 5.02 or IE 5.5 > the text in a Text Box created with the INPUT tag > doesn't enlarge. > However, it does enlarge with Navigator 4.7 > > Is there any way to get Opera and IE to behave like > Navigator in this respect? A lot of this goes down to the fact that the rendering of <input> elements is supposed to be dependent on the OS, and should be the same as the equivalent standard OS textbox control. This led to some debate as to how much influence features that affect the appearance of elements on a web page (CSS and the deprecated elements and attributes) should affect the appearance of these controls, and to how much they should be dependent on the settings of the OS. Indeed the recommended practices for a given OS may differ in a few ways from the recommended practices for the web. NS took the view that the two ways it had of controlling the font of an element (this was before CSS), i.e. the <font> element and the font settings the user sets, should affect the appearance of the control. Other browsers took the view that these controls where the responsibility of the OS and that it had the prerogative in deciding how to render them. IE4+ kept the previous practice of not allowing <font> or user-defined font settings to affect the rendering of <input> because that would make it more compatible with IE3, but allows CSS to affect <input> elements if the style is explicitly set for them (i.e. the style will not inherit from the element it is in). As such you should be able to set a user style-sheet which affects their appearance, but with all the caveats and problems we've recently discussed. I don't know about Opera in this regard I'm afraid (or much about platforms other than Win32). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOtQ0gYFpv9f1Mr0YEQLgqwCfaAgRp/r4upGknhl8atdoPhyh1W4AoPDp 8CFGcVEZmc2VaztZrdMSyltb =nQ21 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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