Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:01:24 +0300 From: George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New web design, font size Message-ID: <200510091001.25167.danchev@spnet.net> In-Reply-To: <200510090826.54395.danchev@spnet.net> References: <20051008.215322.07615533.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <200510090826.54395.danchev@spnet.net>
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On Sunday 09 October 2005 08:26, George Danchev wrote:
> On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:53, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> -cut--
>
> > My second gripe is with the fixed width of the page. This gets
> > annoying really fast, particularly when viewed on a laptop with a very
> > high resolution screen. This is design mistake #9 in Jakob Nielsen's
> > list, referred to above. So please look into ways to make the page
> > width variable. It ought to be a question of setting the widths of
> > various design elements in percent rather than pixels.
>
> I fully agree here.
>
> --- en/layout/css/layout.css.orig Sun Oct 9 08:15:36 2005
> +++ en/layout/css/layout.css Sun Oct 9 08:15:50 2005
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>
> #CONTAINER, #container {
> margin: 0em auto;
> - width: 765px;
> + width: 95%;
> padding: 0;
> padding-top: 0px;
> padding-bottom: 15px;
>
> Not sure if that suffice as fix though.
It's certainly not enough. Here is a slightly more complete approach, trying
to preserve the original ratios as much as possible, but it is hard when you
should dig of which base this ratio depends on.
http://www.bg.freebsd.org/~danchev/patches/02_adaptwidth.diff
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