Hi guys,

How important would you guys say it is for a webpage to be compatible with web browsers running larger text sizes (in IE, "View > Text Size" from Medium text to Larger text)? I am planning on releasing a mainstream website with many less-competent visitors. To that end, when I increase text size in IE everything seems to blow up to very large proportions, but in Firefox it's a perfect, moderate increase.

Is this a problem? Should I be concerned that many people running IE + larger text sizes will have difficulty reading my pages? What can I do to get around this?

Thanks guys!
-influxer

If it's targeted to anyone over 35, it's important as the older you get, the larger you tend to make your font. Also, many high-res laptops use increased font size, so it's imporant to accept some degree of scalability.To help this, make as much of your site relative positioned, and try using "em" measurements so the sizes are realted to the fonts.

You can use em or % to specify font sizes to allow people to re-size text in IE. IF you want the whole thing to scale, then you'll need to do the same for the <div>s that the text sits in.