At the design time a maximum width for the page was chosen, from usability reasons. In such way we keep under control the maximum length of text lines. This is needed because we intend to have a good legibility of the text :)
regards, Adonis On 3/24/08, Catalin Kormos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, you can imagine on my resolution then, i have 1920x1200, and the > page gets centered on the screen. It was designed like that, to have a > centered page on wide screens, the layout has a maximum width to which it > extends. > > regards, > Catalin > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:23 PM, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 08:45 -0600, Matt Cooper wrote: > > > I'm not sure where the code lives for maven-theme.css but there is a > > > 10 pixel change that will fix an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar in > > > Firefox for pages like this one: > > > > > > http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/index.html > > > > > > The style definition for #banner has "width: 200px" but contains an > > > IMG that has a width of 210px. If the #banner's width gets changed to > > > "width: 210px" then the horizontal scrollbar will go away. > > > > > > While we are discussing layout: I have a screen resolution of 1680x1050, > > and there is a large amount of whitespace on the left and right of the > > new pages. The effect is like large "margins" on the page, each about > > 15% of the page width (although the header and footer stretch all the > > way across). It looks a bit odd to me for the left-hand "nav pane" to be > > indented so far from the left of the screen. > > > > Is this deliberate, or is the css not well set up for wider screens? > > > > NB: this is using Firefox 2.0 on Linux. > > > > Regards, > > Simon > > > > > > > -- > ------------ > Codebeat > www.codebeat.ro
