New website rendering problem

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 6 02:03:32 UTC 2005


On Wednesday,  5 October 2005 at 20:54:26 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Wednesday,  5 October 2005 at 21:19:48 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>>> Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q27.  I'm
>>> using <tt> and <pre> tags to display pre-formatted text.  However, it
>>> comes out looking quite awful in the new layout.
>>
>> Well, it would help to understand what you're seeing.  I see
>> fixed-width text that's about 50% too large.  Selecting normal or
>> large text size makes no difference.  But, unlike the home page, at
>> least it renders "correctly", without overlapping fields and texts
>> that overflow their boxes.
>>
>>> What should I be using instead?
>>
>> IE?  It looks as good as could be expected there, though even then it
>> overflows the box a little bit.
>
> Funny - it looks perfect for me on my FreeBSD 7 box with Mozilla.

You're probably running at a lower resolution.

> Maybe you should snap a screen shot and post a link..

I did a while back, when this was being discussed.  Anyway, take a
look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Thumbnails-20051006.html, which
shows the two pages at 10% size.  Click on the images for 25% size,
and click on *those* images for full size.

Greg
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