From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 02:05:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: docs@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF7216A41F; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 02:05:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1310543D70; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 02:04:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73301310CB; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:34:51 +0930 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C98EC84FDA; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:34:51 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:34:51 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20051006020451.GR45811@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1128561588.62455.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051006015217.GM45811@wantadilla.lemis.com> <434483D2.3050801@centtech.com> <1128563967.62455.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="e9fMjeYs+GPci+mg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1128563967.62455.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: docs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New website rendering problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:05:00 -0000 --e9fMjeYs+GPci+mg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 5 October 2005 at 21:59:27 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:54 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: >> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 5 October 2005 at 21:19:48 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>>> Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q27. I'm >>>> using and 
 tags to display pre-formatted text.  However, it
>>>> comes out looking quite awful in the new layout.
>>>
>>> Well, it would help to understand what you're seeing.  I see
>>> fixed-width text that's about 50% too large.  Selecting normal or
>>> large text size makes no difference.  But, unlike the home page, at
>>> least it renders "correctly", without overlapping fields and texts
>>> that overflow their boxes.
>>>
>>>> What should I be using instead?
>>>
>>> IE?  It looks as good as could be expected there, though even then it
>>> overflows the box a little bit.
>>
>> Funny - it looks perfect for me on my FreeBSD 7 box with Mozilla.
>>
>> Maybe you should snap a screen shot and post a link..
>
> This prompted me to check out other browsers.  I was using Epiphany, and
> prior to the website update, the text rendered fine.    I just assumed
> it would affect the other browsers as well since it was the only change.
> But you're right.  Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera seem to do it right.
>
> This is what I see in Epiphany:
>
> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_site_font.png

Yes, this is the general problem with trying to guess the target
environment.  That's one of the things I liked about the old layout:
it rendered correctly everywhere.  But that's no longer "modern", I
suppose.

Greg
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