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Date:      Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:23:19 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New prototype for the FreeBSD homepage
Message-ID:  <19981028232318.35249@nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <19981028151508.A8115@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>; from Wolfram Schneider on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:15:08PM %2B0100
References:  <19981028151508.A8115@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>

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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.

N
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--- index3.old	Wed Oct 28 23:13:52 1998
+++ index3.html	Wed Oct 28 23:20:31 1998
@@ -7,15 +7,12 @@
 </HEAD>
 <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
 <CENTER>
-<TABLE WIDTH=640 CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 ALIGN=CENTER>
-  <TR>
-   <TD>
 <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0>
   <TR>
-    <TD WIDTH="300">
+    <TD>
 <A HREF="http://www.FreeBSD.ORG"><IMG SRC="gifs/freebsd_1.gif" BORDER=0 WIDTH=306 HEIGHT=94 ALT="FreeBSD: The Power to Serve"></A>
     </TD>
-    <TD ALIGN=RIGHT WIDTH="300" VALIGN=BOTTOM>
+    <TD ALIGN=RIGHT VALIGN=BOTTOM>
    <FORM ACTION="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mirror.cgi" METHOD="GET">
 <BR>
 <FONT COLOR="#990000"><B>Select a server near you:</B></FONT>
@@ -81,7 +78,7 @@
   </TR>
 </TABLE>
 <BR>
-<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0">
+<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0">
 <!--
 <tr>
 <td bgcolor="#990000">&nbsp;</td>
@@ -295,7 +292,7 @@
 
 
 <HR>
-<TABLE WIDTH="640" CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0>
+<TABLE CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0>
   <TR>
     <TD ALIGN=left VALIGN=top>
 <FONT SIZE=-1>
@@ -308,11 +305,6 @@
 All rights reserved.</FONT>
 </TD>
 </TR>
-</TABLE>
-
-
-   </TD>
-  </TR>
 </TABLE>
 </CENTER>
 </BODY>

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