From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 10:32:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666C116A41F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 10:32:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20BD43D46 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 10:32:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j97AWWhA075220; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:32:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j97AWWXc001062; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:32:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j97AWWXX001061; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:32:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:32:32 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Darrien Message-ID: <20051007103232.GF595@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20051007070357.GB43170@spinnaker.com> <8fd841240510070320g7f49eda8wcaa3cac03a9490a3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8fd841240510070320g7f49eda8wcaa3cac03a9490a3@mail.gmail.com> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New site - font-size issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:32:35 -0000 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/ 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. Marc