From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 29 04:37:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18640 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:37:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18533 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:36:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA09408; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:28:39 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA18161; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:28:35 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981029132834.A17530@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:28:34 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Nik Clayton , Wolfram Schneider , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New prototype for the FreeBSD homepage References: <19981028151508.A8115@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <19981028232318.35249@nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19981028232318.35249@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:23:19PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for the patch, I put it at http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/data/index4.html and a version without the
tag (no white space on the left hand side of the screen) http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/data/index4c.html Wolfram On 1998-10-28 23:23:19 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:15:08PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > A first prototype for the new FreeBSD homepage layout ist available > > at http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/data/index3.html > > Looks good. Could you try it with the attached diff, to ditch the > width attributes on the tables and cells? The fixed width means my browser > needs to be at least 640 pixels wide, I normally run with it 540 pixels > wide, and there's nothing really in the page that requires it. > > It also drops the table that you had surrounding everything. This means > the page will render faster in Netscape (and probably IE) because it > doesn't have to wait for the whole page to download before displaying > it. > > It also means that if the top (logo plus drop down list) or bottom (list > of 'powered by logos') extend further right than the width of the > browser, it won't drag the text with it. > > To see the difference, apply this patch (call it index4.html or something) > then load both of them into two Netscape windows, ~ 540 pixels wide. You > should see the main text stays on screen and doesn't require a horizontal > scroll, even though the images extend off to the right of the window. -- Wolfram Schneider http://freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message