From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 23:26:57 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 0C5FB16A420 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:26:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F4A43D48 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:26:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 27204 invoked by uid 207); 4 Nov 2005 23:26:54 -0000 Received: from keramida@freebsd.org by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.30/3.97. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.125):. Processed in 5.340081 secs); 04 Nov 2005 23:26:54 -0000 Received: from dialup125.ach.sch.gr (HELO flame.pc) ([81.186.70.125]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 4 Nov 2005 23:26:48 -0000 Received: from flame.pc (flame [127.0.0.1]) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jA4NQHox002383; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 01:26:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jA4NQHLJ002382; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 01:26:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 01:26:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Marc Fonvieille Message-ID: <20051104232616.GB2289@flame.pc> References: <200511030125.jA31PLrJ023110@bright.research.att.com> <20051104103619.GB602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104124921.01f8d98d@localhost> <436B80B4.6080107@freebsd.org> <20051104173806.GK602@gothic.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051104173806.GK602@gothic.blackend.org> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive 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, 04 Nov 2005 23:26:57 -0000 On 2005-11-04 18:38, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:39:32AM +1100, Emily Boyd wrote: > > >Deleting the font-size line should be enough. > > > > > >I think there is no reason to increase pre's > > >font size above the default. > > > > There is actually a reason for that line. > > > > Without that compensation, pre text ends up tiny on the majority of > > browsers/platforms (try it and see :) Emily, I honestly appreciate all the time & work you've put into the new web site. I for one believe that it looks amazing and we can built on top of it, creating a superb web site for FreeBSD. I'm not sure I understand what the 'majority of browsers' is here. I *did* try it on IE 6.X on Windows 2000 at work, on Firefox and Mozilla on FreeBSD at my laptop and Firefox running in an Ubuntu Live CD-ROM. The size of 
 and  elements
was consistently larger than the surrounding 'running text',
making it stand out in a very clear but annoying way.

Web style is probably not my strength, but the screenshots Marc
posted up-thread show exactly why this looked slightly ugly.

> For the moment I just commented out the font-size on
> global.css, this should please many persons.

It does, if you ask me.  If anyone has sample screenshots that
clearly show why this size is too small, I'd be very interested
to see them, please.

- Giorgos