New website rendering problem

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday,  5 October 2005 at 21:59:27 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:54 -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.
>>
>> Maybe you should snap a screen shot and post a link..
>
> This prompted me to check out other browsers.  I was using Epiphany, and
> prior to the website update, the text rendered fine.    I just assumed
> it would affect the other browsers as well since it was the only change.
> But you're right.  Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera seem to do it right.
>
> This is what I see in Epiphany:
>
> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_site_font.png

Yes, this is the general problem with trying to guess the target
environment.  That's one of the things I liked about the old layout:
it rendered correctly everywhere.  But that's no longer "modern", I
suppose.

Greg
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