+1 Randy Kramer
(No comments added below this line.) On Monday 04 April 2011 12:21:37 pm Lex Trotman wrote: > On 5 April 2011 00:34, Matthew Brush <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04/04/11 06:55, Lex Trotman wrote: > >> But the font size is fixed, which is no good. To give you an > >> idea, note in my screen shot how much extra space there is on each > >> side compared to yours, now think how small that makes the text. > >> I currently use 18 point as default, but you probably wouldn't > >> want that on your screen. > > > > Press Ctrl and + to zoom in :) > > Why should we have to do this?? Plus when you zoom most pages (in > your list) show artifacts and/or font rendering problems. > > > I have a big monitor as well, and I've noticed many of the nice > > professional sites don't scale or change the font size when the > > browser is resized. > > Sadly this just proves my contention about web designers ;-) > > Perhaps I'm being too harsh, they are taught at design school to do > things on a piece of paper and I understand that they consequently > have trouble getting their heads around things that vary. By calling > them lazy I really mean that fixed size is much easier to design. > > Some > > > of the nice ones I've noticed lately: > > > > http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > Nah, doesn't do it for me, all advertising no content & text too > small, if I didn't know anything about Ubuntu it wouldn't sell me on > it. > > > http://gitorious.org/ > > An ingenious background that makes it look less like it is fixed > size, and the multi column text layout is good, but again some of the > fonts are too small > > > http://ground-control.org/ > > As above but not quite so nicely designed > > > http://store.apple.com/ca/ > > Shows that you can have sidebar navigation :) > > > http://www.libreoffice.org/ > > This one is an interesting one, even though it has two column text > all the text follows the default size, it isn't fixed, & I like the > background gradient. The overall look is clean. > Maybe we could do something similar with one column for news the > other for description/features/info? > > > I usually use only half of my monitor for the browser, which works > > well with this style of fixed-width, centered websites that seems > > to be all the rage. > > 1. NEVER confuse common with good, Microsoft anyone? :) > > 2. I have 12 tabs open, 8 of which are using full width. The only > ones that don't look too good are the GTK reference ones. Of the > fixed size ones, two are manuals, (all text so of course they are > fixed width), one is news (lots of pictures, another of the reasons I > gave for fixed size) and that leaves one other fixed size. So I am > not going to re-size the browser for one website. > > > Note also that all those examples are using the same general style > > of "across the top" menus. I think a lot of people look there by > > default nowadays for the main site navigation. > > None of them have menus across the top, they all have 4-6 links > across the top, which all go to other pages so you have to go to > other pages to look for things. I think 4-6 is too few for what we > have to cover. Hence I advocate a sidebar which fits more. > > But maybe we can use the method that http://www.linuxmint.com/ uses > where, as you mouse over the top categories the next line shows the > subcategories, that way you can find what you are looking for without > having to go to other pages to search for it. Anyway its something > to try as an alternative. It could probably re-use most of the menu > code Pockata has already, just make the menu horizontal on the next > line. _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
