On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:12:34 +0000 David Holland <dholland-d...@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > Most sites that use columns layout have a min-width declared, > > NetBSD's > > does not. I can declare one but in that case: please provide a > > minimum wdith please. > > How about 1000? I don't particularly mind if the site grows a > scrollbar in my default width (as long as the center part doesn't > extend off off the side, but it won't) but it should try to avoid > looking silly. > > The reason my browser is 900px wide by default is that this is about > the limit where pages that are just text become too wide to be > legible. It's easy to click maximize when wanted. http://webtypography.net/ is a helpful resource for these kinds of questions. Nice work on the navbar, first of all. It's a big improvement. For the same reason as David's, I usually keep Safari about 1/2 the width of my screen, which is 1920x1200. That puts it in the neighborhood of 900px, which for me is about 50em. The proposed new page (http://www.netbsd.org/~jym/netbsd/index.html) looks good that way. While we're on the subject, could I make a few suggestions? 1. Why is the default font small? It's definitely not easy to read if you're over 50, and enlarging the font makes *everything* bigger. The only running text is under "Welcome to NetBSD" (#mainContent). It should be normal size. 2. I like the new menu, but I don't love the orange-on-orange. How about keeping the pale orange background in the dropdown, but using dark grey for the menu items, and bold instead of reverse-video for highlighting? 3. Maybe it's not too soon to delete the 2007 fundraising text? It would be nice if "Of course it runs NetBSD" used left- and right-quotes. That's in NetBSD-headerlogo.png, which unfortunately is a checked-in image. Any reason it couldn't be HTML instead? If it must be an image so browsers don't perturb the fontliness, it could be done in groff, cf. http://www.schemamania.org/netbsd/logo/NetBSD-headerlogo.png and http://www.schemamania.org/netbsd/logo/NetBSD-headerlogo.ms. That uses Helvetica; I'm not sure what was used originally. As long as it's free, it should be no problem to add to /usr/share/groff_font. --jkl
