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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FreedomForAll who wrote (254)	7/6/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

John, the problem with your solution (of changing fonts in the browser) is you assume that SI is the only thing I use my browser on. Changes to the browser settings affect ALL sites I visit and I do not want to change browser settings every time I go to a new site. SI should provide the solution as a user profile setting, SI cannot depend on the user to change his browser settings for SI. (SI should realize that they don't provide adequate content for all investment due diligence and other sites will be visited by SI users.) Not intentionally I didn't. I was suggesting font changes by the user as a way around our collective (whole beta group on this thread) inability to agree on how much message text to display on a line. I thought font size, with its keyboard shortcut keys, was a relatively painless way for us to all get what we want. Your suggestion of a profile setting to control this does the same thing but only has to be set once. It also has the benefit of not affecting other sites if I move to them in the same window I have SI in. I'm not sure how easy it would be to set up, or how intuitive, but if we only had to do it once I'm sure it wouldn't be too bad. I prefer this solution to mine, but it requires Si agreement and mine didn't. You get to see it your way no matter which way SI programs it. If all links were followed by opening a new browser window, which I also suggested, then other site requirements wouldn't interfere with my SI choice.