Comments on: Internet Explorer and 120 dpi

By: IgorV

IgorV — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:06:51 +0000

Also, can someone explain to me the 1000 / ((screen.deviceXDPI / 96) * 16) ??? To me it doesn’t make any sense, and happen to work just by accident. 100 / (screen.deviceXDPI / 96) or 9600 / screen.deviceXDPI seems to be the correct one.

By: IgorV

IgorV — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:58:28 +0000

Keep in mind, Opera 10 scales fonts same way IE does on 120 DPI

By: Margo

Margo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:59:49 +0000

Hello,

We have a .net environment and the resizing works except for the navigational elements and buttons (unordered lists and html buttons). What is interesting that it also changes the font family to serif even though it is defined as Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif. Any ideas?

Thank you,
Margo

By: Bob D

Bob D — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:11:57 +0000

Must agree – I did identify that IE7 (6 and 8 were OK) was resizing things and breaking page on macines running 120DPI. I had no idea on how to resolve this until Google pointed me to this blog. It totally solved all my layout issues – all pages now render perfectly regardless of machine DPI or IE version (FF2 & 3 as mentioned above were fine).

Awesome tip – saved many hours of troubleshooting….thanks

Bob

By: Anthony Bouch

Anthony Bouch — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:49:06 +0000

Great tip – thank for this. The whole 120DPI think on Windows / Vista is a bit of a nightmare really – including IE’s default handling.

By: william

william — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:05:23 +0000

This solution is meant for web sites that are using ems for font sizes. What it does is scales the base font size so that 1em = 10px, making it easier to work with ems, and applies the proper scaling to IE when it’s screen DPI is set to 120 instead of 96. In order to use this, you would need to change all your units to ems. Or, you could just use pixels which would ensure that everything is the same size regardless of screen dpi, but older version of IE will not be able to increase or decrease the text size.

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:36:12 +0000

William,

Thanks for responding. I tried it and it did kind of work.

This problem seems to effect text as well as images, because while it made some of the text elements on my site smaller, it left the images unchanged (naturally) and not even all of the text was made smaller. So, the problem persists.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

John

By: william

william — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:28:02 +0000

John, if you copied and pasted from Wordpress then what should be regular quotes around % and 62.5% may actually be curly quotes. Replace them with regular quotes and it should work.

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:17:15 +0000

Hi. I am experiencing the same issue that you talk about in this blog (http://www.williamkolean.com/williamblog/?p=18).

However, I tried implementing the fix you stated and it didn’t work on my end.

I put this line:

font-size: expression(screen.deviceXDPI > 96 ? 1000 / ((screen.deviceXDPI / 96) * 16) + “%” : “62.5%”);

into the “body” part of my css file. Did I do that right?

Thanks.

John
Did I do it right?

By: not tried because I have mac

not tried because I have mac — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:28:10 +0000

I already installed this hacks, but havent tried Ie cos I have Mac…

But if this works….

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