On 3/13/10 8:00 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 13:36 -0700, Josh Williams wrote: > >> That's true, you can always resize the window. I'm in the camp that it's >> better to set a maximum width because I think it's harder to read long >> strings of text. Also I don't enjoy resizing the window just for sites >> that do this. Anyway, I'm not opposed to having it set at 100% width if >> you think most of the wiki users would prefer that. >> > I was convinced of the superiority of a resizable layou until reading > your argument. Indeed, very long lines of text are hard to read and look > bad. > > On the other hand, even on my 1440 pixel wide-screen display, our > production wiki looks normal, while yours seems too narrow. > > It might be because I'm using larger fonts, and you specified the width > in pixels. Perhaps you could use point units instead? >
Take a look now, I set the max width to 65em (which is the rough equivelent of what I had it at before). An em is a unit of measurement that's based off the current text size so it scales when you increase the font size. > While I agree with you on the principle, it might turn out to be too > hard to get the fixed layout look good on all of the oddly shaped > displays that exist today. The official Wikipedia site also uses 100% > width, perhaps for the same reason. > If we can't make it look good then we should just go without setting a maximum width. > > >> I personally use wine for ie6 and then I have an xp virtual machine for >> ie 7, vista VM for ie 8, and an old ubuntu VM for FF3. I use my >> girlfriends old ibook for safari 3. >> > Wow, that's quite an impressive range... You missed my favorite, but > Safari should come close. > Before reading further (or remembering your screenshot) I thought your favorite was Konqueror :) . I actually use chromium dev builds for my daily browsing, but I don't test the windows version unless I'm embedding fonts and I don't test the linux version at all. >> Thanks the screenshot was helpful, I'll be working on the issue later >> next week. BTW if you normally have that many tabs open, I strongly >> recommend you try out tree style tabs for firefox - it's a super handy >> ad on. >> > Thank you, it's really fantastic... but it won't suffice: I'm too happy > with Chromium to switch back to Firefox as my default browser :-) > > Chrome is nice I can't really argue with you there. Josh _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep