Re: [Debconf-team] Still can't log in

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>]

ti, 2005-12-06 kello 09:44 +0000, Neil McGovern kirjoitti:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:18:22AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> [snip]
> > Incidentally, the pages work pretty badly on a browser that isn't very
> > wide. My browser is about 700 or 800 pixels wide, and the side bars take
> > up most of the space (but still manage to not be fully visible), making
> > the main text area very difficult to read. It would be good to fix this.
> 
> Yes, this was changed fairly recently, after complaints that the side
> bars were too large at higher resolutions.
> I'm not really sure on the best way to go about this. I've tested it at
> 800x600, and it works (it's not pretty, but it works).

I'd get rid of one of the side bars. The sponsor logos should fit fine
on the left. Or move the nice graphics on the left into the middle
column and get rid of the left side bar. Or something like that, I
haven't experimented to see that what would actually work.

> How are you only getting 700px?

It's half the width of my screen, and gives me a decent amount of text,
with suitably long lines (with the font size I prefer), and is generally
nice. For instance, I like having two or more windows open at the same
time. If I have to maximize my browser to be able to view a web page, I
can't do anything else at the same time, like write e-mail or use an
editor, or whatever. It's an annoyance every time I have to resize my
browser or scroll sideways to be able to read things.

The mobile browsing device I've used lately (Nokia 770) has similar
trouble. Things in the sidebars aren't fully visible, images overlap,
and the useful area for the text is very narrow, leading to readability
issues, when there are multiple columns in the already narrow text area,
such as in the list of proposals.

(This should probably be redirected to the website list, if that is in
use. Please do so. I'd be happy to expound and provide screenshots, if
there is a desire to improve this.)

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