On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 23, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > I know all these arguments, and I'm not going to get into them, except > > to say that the vast majority of websites on the internet share every > > one of these "flaws". Two small changes to the CSS got rid of the > > font-size and reflow issue, as you can see from > > http://people.apache.org/~slive/httpd-site/docs/ > > But I think most people would agree that this design looks less > > "modern". Why? Because on the real internet, so many sites use a > > smaller-than-default font size, that users think of the small size as > > the real default and adjust their expectations and browser settings > > accordingly. > > > > WTF? No they don't. > > http://modrails.com/index.html > http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ > http://wordpress.org/ > > Bad design is just bad, not modern. I think these choices look remedial > on the ASF site, but I'm too busy to do better. They look bad on a more > technical site like httpd.a.o (where I have already done better).
What are you talking about Roy? I don't want to get into this argument, but just checking one of the those three example sites (the last one), I found all three of the "flaws" that Nick was after: does not reflow properly for very-small screens, sets font size to 62.5% of the user's default, and uses the transitional DOCTYPE. Whatever. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
