Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:28:34 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New prototype for the FreeBSD homepage Message-ID: <19981029132834.A17530@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <19981028232318.35249@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:23:19PM %2B0000 References: <19981028151508.A8115@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <19981028232318.35249@nothing-going-on.org>
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Thanks for the patch, I put it at http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/data/index4.html and a version without the <center> 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 <wosch@freebsd.org> http://freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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