Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:21:34 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        docs@FreeBSD.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: New website rendering problem
Message-ID:  <43448A2E.3030706@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051006020330.GQ45811@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <1128561588.62455.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051006015217.GM45811@wantadilla.lemis.com> <434483D2.3050801@centtech.com> <20051006020330.GQ45811@wantadilla.lemis.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday,  5 October 2005 at 20:54:26 -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.
> 
> 
> You're probably running at a lower resolution.

Maybe - I'm running at 1920x1200 on my 17" LCD.  What is yours at?


>>Maybe you should snap a screen shot and post a link..
> 
> 
> I did a while back, when this was being discussed.  Anyway, take a
> look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Thumbnails-20051006.html, which
> shows the two pages at 10% size.  Click on the images for 25% size,
> and click on *those* images for full size.

Oh my goodness - those are horrid.  It looks like your fonts (in 
firefox) set larger -  does it look better after hitting CTRL-- ?

Eric



-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't.
------------------------------------------------------------------------



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?43448A2E.3030706>