cvs commit: www/en/layout/css global.css

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:42:33PM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> >Then I'm lost cause I cannot see how a font-size=small (it was the CSS
> >seeting before I revert my commit) could appear "big" on the screen :((
> >especially if you used default Firefox settings.
> 
> It's not "big per se'", it's big compared to the website layout. If I 
> look at http://httpd.apache.org/ the font size is ok (large layout, long 
> text). If I put the same font into the FreeBSD layout (fixed boxes, 
> small phrases) it will look huge. Similarly the font at 
> http://www.postgresql.org/ is ok, but it will look small on the Apache 
> website. This is the same reason why the fonts on documentation pages 
> are ok for docs and not for the website, and viceversa.
>

ahhh *this* is different; from my point of view what you are describing
is more subjective than a real rendering issue.  I mean with default
CSS, things like <tt></tt> and <pre></pre> just looked completly
different (bigger) than the rest if one uses a minimum size of 12 or 10
for the fonts.  It's what I tried to fix.  Regarding the overall size, I
choosed an "average" solution, i.e.  not too small not too big, but it's
not possible to please every browser, screen resolution, etc, it's why I
gave up.
Anyway, when I see http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/gnome.png it's
difficult for me to not think there's something weird with the font
definition.

Marc