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Re: IE doesn't increase font-size in px

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Apr 11, 2013 3:40PM

On 4/11/2013 4:36 PM, Angela French wrote:

> Responsive design in this case is done using Twitter Bootstrap (which apparently uses pixels for setting font size)


Twitter bootstrap is simply fashionable, which has nothing to do with
quality :-) Here is a responsive design that allows text size zooming in IE:

http://www.projectseven.com/products/templates/pagepacks/dmm/affinity/affinity-themes/boardroom/layout-3-01.htm

It simply requires vigilance in using proportional measures. What you do
not want to do, however, is use ems for element width as that can
produce usability issues for anyone increasing text size.

Em for fonts-size and percentage width (or no width) for structural
elements and you can't really go wrong.