Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:31:01 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>, freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to the new website redesign Message-ID: <20050916040101.GL86168@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4329116D.2040205@pacific.net.sg> References: <20050915051003.GK27537@freebsdmall.com> <43290F06.8080103@pacific.net.sg> <1126764560.582.4.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <4329116D.2040205@pacific.net.sg>
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--2OzUYMsT4j3Kc+NU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 15 September 2005 at 14:15:09 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Joel Dahl wrote: >> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:04 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: >>> >>> Murray Stokely wrote: >>> >>>> http://beastie.emilyboyd.com/~emily/data/ >>> >>> the fonts are pretty small on a screen with a higher resolution. >>> >>> I did not check, but an absolut font size (10pt) helps here a lot. >> >> You can adjust the text-size, check the upper-right corner on the >> website. Right, but the layout suffers. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Day/20050915/webpage.gif, which shows how it renders on my 2048x1536 monitor. The links at top right overlap, and the right column below overflows the box. If I increase the character size further, numerous fields overlap. I don't know how long it will be before real high-res monitors come into being (though I suspect that the weaknesses of HTML will hold them up), but when they do this will be even worse. Before you say that this is ridiculously large text, it isn't. http://www.lemis.com/grog/Day/20050915/webpage-1024x768.gif shows the size it would be on a 1024x768 screen. Note that the old web page doesn't have this problem, even with extreme character sizes. > There would be no need for this if absolute values for the size > would be used. I thought so too, until I set the screen size on my home projector system. Then I got images like http://wwww.lemis.com/grog/Day/20050831/firefox.gif. Look at the headings: they're 10 pt, but on a 2.5 metre wide screen (11 dpi!) they're completely illegible. The real problem is that HTML renders individual parts of the screen individually. There are so many areas where that doesn't work; PDF doesn't have the same issues. But that's another rant. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --2OzUYMsT4j3Kc+NU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDKkN9IubykFB6QiMRAiaPAJ4+fRA2uPd7QxvuzRpxIlvzQjcBgQCfZQVn Kb5emxJ/ZKytOLigiWwJinc= =DHmv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2OzUYMsT4j3Kc+NU--
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