www/91539: FreeBSD web site renders very badly

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Sun Jan 8 17:00:20 PST 2006


>Number:         91539
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD web site renders very badly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 09 01:00:18 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Greg 'groggy' Lehey
>Release:        non-specific
>Organization:
LEMIX (SA) Pty Ltd.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD wantadilla.lemis.com 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Jul 12 11:57:56 CST 2005 grog at wantadilla.lemis.com:/usr/obj/src/FreeBSD/6-CURRENT/src/sys/WANTADILLA i386


	Not specifically machine related.

>Description:

	The current web site renders very badly:

	- Text sizes are, in general, far too large.
	- Line spacing is too small for text (texts overlap).
	- Boxes are too small for text (text overflows).
	- Layout leaves far too large margins.  In the default case,
	  up to 40% of the page is left margin, and the text scrolls
	  off beyond the right margin.
	- PR pages (including, presumably, this one) are in ridiculously large text.

	The overall impression is very negative, particularly in
	comparison with other BSD project web sites.  As a result, I'm
	categorizing this PR as "critical" and "high priority".

>How-To-Repeat:

	Using firefox, view:

	http://www.freebsd.org/
	http://www.netbsd.org/
	http://www.openbsd.org/
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=91536

	Compare the results with
	http://www.lemis.com/grog/Photos-20060109.html.  If they're
	not the same, this may help explain the problem.

>Fix:

	Removing font size specifics from the CSS style sheets might
	be a start.  Also remove margin specifications unless
	absolutely necessary.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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