Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:34:51 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: docs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New website rendering problem Message-ID: <20051006020451.GR45811@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1128563967.62455.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.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>
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--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 <tt> and <pre> 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --e9fMjeYs+GPci+mg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDRIZDIubykFB6QiMRAmjVAJ45+qjf09N38PEqr6m2RkLyJPznPACfXPPr 3aVwz5CF6SLcOjXp7MXl3vk= =NCJJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --e9fMjeYs+GPci+mg--
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