Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 04:51:34 -0700 From: Darrien <darrien.l@gmail.com> To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New site - font-size issues Message-ID: <8fd841240510070451v747b3599o756c8484865d84b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051007103232.GF595@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20051007070357.GB43170@spinnaker.com> <8fd841240510070320g7f49eda8wcaa3cac03a9490a3@mail.gmail.com> <20051007103232.GF595@gothic.blackend.org>
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On 10/7/05, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:20:26AM -0700, Darrien wrote: > > > > I hear you. Small, fixed, or other forced font sizes have decimated > > the internet for me. Not only are they unreadable to me, but they > > cause distortion and other artifacts such as text running off of a > > background color, odd line-wrapping and other such things. > > > > I've sent emails to various webmasters, but none of them ever bothered > > to change anything. I sincerely hope that that won't be the case here. > > > > My question to developers is this: Is the old website going to be > > updated and maintained? If so, for how long? If it's not going to be > > maintained, then I probably won't be using FreeBSD for very much > > longer. This isn't a hissy fit or an ultimatum, it's reality. If I > > can't read my OS's documentation without getting eyestrain headaches > > or jumping through hoops, then my only choices are to clog up mailing > > lists, forums, IRC channels etc. with stupid questions; or try to > > guess at how things work with a lot of trial and error. > > > > The latter option isn't fair to me and the former option isn't fair to > > everyone else, so the only real choice is to switch to an OS with > > documentation I can read. > > > [...] > > The documentation rendering is still the same as before, for example > have a look at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > How long is it going to stay that way? What if I want to view the release engineering page which isn't? > As before, you can CVSup the doc, build it and render it as you wish > (HTML, PDF, plain text, etc.). Well, I don't see why you are worried. > Ignoring for the moment that doing so would entail a large amount of work on my part relative to what I used to do, how would I go about building a local copy of the new content under the old layout? Do I just have to check out the tree, rollback and delete a few CSS files, and type "make"; or will I have to edit every single file, adding, changing and removing lines as necessary?
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