Re: Improving the Octave website look

[Keith Goodman]

On 6/28/06, Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Keith Goodman <address@hidden> [2006-06-28 08:14]:
>
> > On 6/28/06, Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > >I already the issues below privately with JWE and he told me to post my
> > >comments here.  The www.octave.org web site does not look nice here with
> > >either Mozilla or Firefox (I have set here the minimum font size to 10pt):
> > >
> > >    http://people.debian.org/~rafael/www-octave-org-original.png
> >
> > I don't get that behavior with Mozilla or Firefox...
>
> It only happens with a precise combination of font sizes and window
> width.  Try to play with these parameters and you will see the problem.
> I have Mozilla 1.7.12 and Firefox 1.0.6.
>
> It is considered bad web designing practice to depend on a precise window
> geometry or on precise font sizes at the client size.  The patch that I
> proposed only partially fixes the problem.  For instance, the page looks
> width with a narrow browser window.

Now I can do it too.

BTW, what do you think of the floating navigation table? It's novel at
first. But later it becomes distracting when I scroll down a page.