Another $99 Web Terminal

An Anonymous Coward writes: "If anyone is looking for a fun $99 hacking project, Tiger direct has Compaq Ipaq's for $99, great little web browsing terminals, they support Flash, jJava, ActiveX. The parts (LCD screen etc) are probably worth more than this. You'll need to get a USB Ethernet adapter so you can use broadband." Tiger Direct seems to have a mixed reputation for service, but at under a hundred dollars, this looks pretty tempting even if only used as a digital photo frame, or an adjunct mail terminal.

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Re:This sounds like a cheap alternative

[Anonymous Coward]

You can, it's really cool.

Why changing font size on some sites has no effect

[yerricde]

For some reason though, I've run into a lot of sites where changing the font size in my browser had no effect.

This is a problem with CSS. The CSS standard has no common way to specify font sizes for each monitor resolution. Specifying font sizes in points makes fonts look tiny on Macintosh computers, whose default logical display resolution is 72 dpi instead of 96 dpi. Specifying font sizes in pixels disables the "larger/smaller" buttons.