Disabling/Dealing With Extra-Large Fonts

[pkbowen]

Hey Guys,

I have an interesting question:  How do you deal with clients that have 'extra-large fonts' enabled on their machines? 

I have a client that is ~55 years of age, and uses the XL font styles on Windows.  This site (http://pineridgesportingclays.com) is solid in every browser (and I believe it validates flawlessly/almost-flawlessly), but there is no easy solution to the overflow problem with these XL font styles.

Is there a comment/some other method that you can use to force the page to render with normal font sizes?  Other suggestions?

Thanks!
-pkbowen

[Dr.CSS]

DO you use em or px for font size, I've heard that px as font-size has a tendency to make them not scale, or if you want you can go thru and use em for all your content sizes then the site should zoom with the text...

[pkbowen]

I use EM for all text.  The site scales fine, but this particualr problem isn't a zooming issue...it's that the user has an "XL Font" style enabled (in Windows, change the visual style from Aero to "XL -----").

This is an interesting problem that I haven't encountered before, and I'm sure it will only become a larger issue as the baby-boomers start to lose their eyesight and increasingly go to XL fonts.

Warmest regards,
pkbowen