New website rendering problem

[Eric Anderson]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 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 - I'm running at 1920x1200 on my 17" LCD.  What is yours at?


>>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.

Oh my goodness - those are horrid.  It looks like your fonts (in 
firefox) set larger -  does it look better after hitting CTRL-- ?

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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