Am 17. März 2015 02:05:45 MEZ, schrieb sebb <[email protected]>: >On 16 March 2015 at 20:56, Felix Schumacher ><[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 14.03.2015 um 16:35 schrieb sebb: >>> >>> I have created some quick test sites to show how the JMeter index >page >>> looks with various different menu font sizes. >>> >>> http://jmeter.apache.org/ - original, i.e. 100% >>> >>> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/jmeter90/ - 90% >>> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/jmeter85/ - 85% >>> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/jmeter80/ - 80% >>> >>> >>> On my desktop, the 80% size is perhaps starting to get a bit too >small >>> in comparison with the body text, but 100% is definitely too big. >> >> In my version on p.a.o/~fschumacher/jmeter I already set the menu >font to >> 90%. >> >> What do you want with the smaller versions? In my tests with >~1300x800 we >> only get a line or two more. That could be achieved with less gaps >between >> the boxes also. > >It's partly to improve the balance between the sizes so the menu does >not overpower the body text. > >Also it allows the menu to be narrower leaving more room for body text >on smaller screens. > >On revisiting the 90% examples I still think that is a bit too big >compared with the body text. In my eyes making the menu text smaller is too small. Maybe I have bad sight.
> >> We don't have to have boxes around the menu items it was just an >example. >> >> We could even put the menu as a flat one to the top of the page (can >be seen >> in my version, if you use a resolution from 600 to 1000 pixel wide. > >That works well for narrower screens; I'm not sure I like it for wider >screens as one cannot see the second level contents at a glance. That is why at 1000px (can be adjusted in the media query) the whole menu is again shown on the left hand side. > >>> >>> >>> >>> It's much the same on a Hudl2 tablet (landscape mode). >>> >>> >>> If the menu text size can be reduced, then the layout can be >adjusted >>> to give more space to the body text. I have not done that in the >>> samples. >> >> If you mean to widen the main text, then I like to point out, that >wider >> text lines tend to be harder to read. That is the reason, why I put a >> max-width of 60em. We could probably add a few em's, if you like. But >not >> too much (in my eyes). > >It would help if the design decisions were documented in the CSS file >as comments. I will put in a few comments. Felix > >> Regards >> Felix >> >>> >>> [Note: the sites only have the index page; I did not copy the other >>> pages.] >> >>
