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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Modifying the main web page CSS (D3215)
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The main web page (https://www.freebsd.org/) is terrible on a wide monitor. 
Most monitors, really.  The CSS throws away a lot of space and uses tiny 
crimped fonts.  Except for <tt> fonts, which are ridiculously overstated.

Quite some time back, this irritated me enough to stomp through the CSS, 
willfully modifying anything that looked funny.  The result is not perfect, but 
still a huge improvement.

There have been proposals to replace the main page entirely, but that now looks 
like it will take a while.

So I created this review of my modifications:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3215

Previews of how the main page looks on 1920x1200 and 1024x768 monitors are 
here:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/wide-1920.png
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/wide-1024.png

It would be nice to space the four elements across the top more evenly, The 
horizontal scrollbar wrongly implies that there is something to the right. 
Fixes welcome.

I propose to commit this in the next three days unless there are 
complaints or submitted improvements.

Thanks!