So I was just dithering around with a possible new theme for this site (again? Yes, again. For about the billionth time in the last two years) when I once again stumbled across a little oddity with Internet Exploder which has led me to ask the following question:

What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fucking fucking fuck?

So I’ve got this image, right, and it’s 1240 pixels wide, right, and I put it into a webpage. If I view that page in Firefox I get an image which is, not very suprsingly, 1240 pixels wide. If, however, I view the same page in Internet Fucking Explorer, it’s about 1.25x the size. It’s made the image bigger.

What. The. Fuck?

I don’t know why I’ve never really noticed this before either. I spend most days building websites at work and comparing them in two browsers but maybe it’s because I’m concerned about functionality more than appearance in those cases (plus they generally look absolutely awful which really is nothing to do with me).

I’ve read that this is to do with IEX automatic image resizing which can be switched off in the options but the test I’ve just done hasn’t actually done that. So the question I have is, how do I get around this problem (don’t tell me to use Firefox or I will be unkind to your dog - this is about making sure the site is multi-browser capable) but ignoring whatever setting a viewer might have in their options?