I haven’t used Internet Explorer at home for a few months and I see today that it doesn’t render bucketFountain 100% since I changed the default font-size a few weeks back. It had occurred to me that in making the text resizable, it was quite possible that certain, hmm, shall we say, ‘inexperienced users’ would find the site unreadable and not realise that they had accidentally resized the text size in IE (using their scroll wheel and the ctrl key).
To solve the problem I immediately went to Ben Poole’s most excellent site, and, as I suspected, found that he didn’t suffer from the problem. I also remember Ben writing that he had based his style sheets on those from bluerobot.com , a good, solid option.
The solution was simple – the font was set to 97%, and that’s what I did here. Although there are only so many screen sizes/resolutions that I can test on, it has not broken on any that I have tried so far.
And perhaps Microsoft could take a leaf out of Mozilla’s superlative book, and let the user choose if they enable those slightly unusual key/mouse combo’s (Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Mouse Wheel) that you are likely to be using without even knowing it.