Website incompatible with larger textsizes?

[influxer]

How important would you guys say it is for a webpage to be compatible with web browsers running larger text sizes (in IE, "View > Text Size" from Medium text to Larger text)? I am planning on releasing a mainstream website with many less-competent visitors. To that end, when I increase text size in IE everything seems to blow up to very large proportions, but in Firefox it's a perfect, moderate increase.

Is this a problem? Should I be concerned that many people running IE + larger text sizes will have difficulty reading my pages? What can I do to get around this?

Thanks guys!
-influxer

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

IE has a bug that doesn't allow the user to change the font-size if its set in px or pt.

[ronaldb66]

Text sizing on the web is one of the most challenging and frustrating aspects of styling pages through CSS; there is no single solution that works well on all browsers.

While forced to use IE at work, I had my text size set to "small" for the longest time, but since more and more sites I visit regularly started to sport illegibly small text I finally set it up to "medium", which seems to fit most modern text sizing methods.

It is true that IE's text sizing is crude, but I would still recommend sizable text over fixed size because of accessibility reasons.

Some favour a combination of a percentage on the html element and keywords in all other styles, some use all ems; I like the percentage and em combination (http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/index.html) myself.