Re: IE <select> pop-up size determination?

On 06/04/20 11:19 (GMT-0400) Seb Frost apparently typed:

> Seb Frost wrote:

> Been around the entire office, and found no rhyme or reason to this:

> Have a select box with 21 options in it.  When 75% of us click it we're
> shown 11 options and a scrollbar.  The other 25% get the full 21options with
> no scrollbar.  There's a mixture of w2k and wxp, but no correlation.  All
> checked in IE6, and all machines are updated regularly.  I have exactly the
> same version of IE (6.0.29000.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) that a
> colleague has, yet we get the opposite behaviour.  We're both running
> 1024x768.  The only thing that links those who get the full 21options with
> no scrollbar that I've noticed so far is that they're both on laptops...

> any clues?

> More info.  Tested on 15 computers, 9 desktops and 6 laptops.

> Desktops are a mix of w2k\wxp, ALL get 11options+scrollbar.

> 5 laptops are wxp, ALL get 21options.

> 1 laptop is w2003, get's 11options+scollbar.  I'm going to discount that
> though, since it's an oddity running 2003.

> So, seems laptops render select boxes differently, very odd.  Select boxes
> are system-level objects (hence why you can't lay flash over them) so I
> guess laptops have a different implementation for them, intentionally to
> reduce the amount of mouse movement necessary, maybe?

I'm 97.44% sure the 5 WinXP laptops are set to 120 DPI "large fonts" in
advanced display settings. That's a common manufacturer configuration
change from the 96 DPI standard doze setting. Did that W2003 laptop get
it's OS installed by someone in the office?

Before attempting to change any DPI settings, learn about DPI:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/PointsDemo.html (script fails in IE)
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/vectors/en/2002_lcd?c=us&l=en&s=corp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/highdpi.asp
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/units/
http://home.earthlink.net/~bobbau/platforms/text-size/
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpi.html
http://scanline.ca/dpi/
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html
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Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/auth


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