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I want to disable zoom available in status bar of IE? How can do this? Is it possible using JavaScript?

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I hope not (the browser is running on my computer using my resources). If you explain why you need this there may be another solution. – Richard Jul 7 '10 at 8:48
@Richard i assume he means on his own computer (This is superuser, after all). A good reason to revert to the old zoom behavior (zooming changes text size only), is that IE is very slow at rendering resized content. Flash and animated gifs are especially bad. (Though this will be fixed in ie9 with it's hardware rendering) – Ian Boyd Jul 7 '10 at 15:59
@Richard 0 I have to do this in a web application so that user can't zoom. – Vishawjeet Saini Jul 7 '10 at 17:20
@Vis - this is not possible. You are sending web pages, which is basically code. This code is interpreted by the browser, on the user's side, to render it as a full page. You can't control the fact that the browser can render it bigger or smaller than what you want, from the website side. This zoom is only a client thing, there is no way to block it from your side. – Gnoupi Jul 7 '10 at 17:29
@Vishawjeet: You need to ask development (including creating the web pages) questions on StackOverflow. SuperUser is end user Q&A. – Richard Jul 7 '10 at 19:41
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According to Microsoft, you can disable the zoom feature by adding registry values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft.

  1. Add key Internet Explorer with subkey Zoom.
  2. Add a DWORD (32-bit) to the subkey called ZoomDisabled and a value of 1.
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FYI: This solution only works for the end-client, not for arbitrary web pages (which, to my knowledge, cannot disable zooming). – grammar31 Jul 8 '10 at 20:28
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