New web design, font size

[George Danchev]

On Sunday 09 October 2005 08:26, George Danchev wrote:
> On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:53, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> -cut--
>
> > My second gripe is with the fixed width of the page.  This gets
> > annoying really fast, particularly when viewed on a laptop with a very
> > high resolution screen.  This is design mistake #9 in Jakob Nielsen's
> > list, referred to above.  So please look into ways to make the page
> > width variable.  It ought to be a question of setting the widths of
> > various design elements in percent rather than pixels.
>
> I fully agree here.
>
> --- en/layout/css/layout.css.orig	Sun Oct  9 08:15:36 2005
> +++ en/layout/css/layout.css	Sun Oct  9 08:15:50 2005
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>
>  #CONTAINER, #container {
>    margin: 0em auto;
> -  width: 765px;
> +  width: 95%;
>    padding: 0;
>    padding-top: 0px;
>    padding-bottom: 15px;
>
> Not sure if that suffice as fix though.

It's certainly not enough. Here is a slightly more complete approach, trying 
to preserve the original ratios as much as possible, but it is hard when you 
should dig of which base this ratio depends on.

http://www.bg.freebsd.org/~danchev/patches/02_adaptwidth.diff

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