Modifying the main web page CSS (D3215)

[Allan Jude]

On 2015-09-05 20:14, Warren Block wrote:
> The main web page (https://www.freebsd.org/) is terrible on a wide
> monitor. Most monitors, really.  The CSS throws away a lot of space and
> uses tiny crimped fonts.  Except for <tt> fonts, which are ridiculously
> overstated.
> 
> Quite some time back, this irritated me enough to stomp through the CSS,
> willfully modifying anything that looked funny.  The result is not
> perfect, but still a huge improvement.
> 
> There have been proposals to replace the main page entirely, but that
> now looks like it will take a while.
> 
> So I created this review of my modifications:
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3215
> 
> Previews of how the main page looks on 1920x1200 and 1024x768 monitors
> are here:
> 
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/wide-1920.png
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/wide-1024.png
> 
> It would be nice to space the four elements across the top more evenly,
> The horizontal scrollbar wrongly implies that there is something to the
> right. Fixes welcome.
> 
> I propose to commit this in the next three days unless there are
> complaints or submitted improvements.
> 
> Thanks!
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In your screenshots, the search box (top right) is very small

I also wonder about removing the explicit <br> between the event name
and location in the "upcoming events" column, to make it more
effectively use the space

-- 
Allan Jude

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