Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/bibliography...

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Heikki Junes wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> > Heikki Johannes Junes wrote:
> >
> > > Modified files:
> > >     .              : ChangeLog     Documentation/bibliography: 
> > > index.html.in html-long.bst     stepmake/bin   : text2html.py     
> > > buildscripts   : mutopia-index.py
> > > Log message:
> > >     optimize width for 800x600, width=760px (continued).
> > Hello,
> >
> > can you fix/revert this?
>
>
> Actually, it was a fix. As an introduction, I wanted to find a reference 
> which would describe the subject:
>
>   http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesign/a/aa080904.htm
>
> A brief extract:
>
>   "If the scan length of a line of text is longer than 10-12 words or 
> shorter than 4-5 words, it can be very difficult to read. This means 
> that readers with large or small browser windows will have trouble."
>
> >   All of a sudden the lily docs in Firefox start to look like 
> > attached.   My screen is 1280x1024, and I want things to look OK on my 
> > 1600x1200 mac as well. 
>
>
> > Let us assume that our users  know what they are doing, and respect 
> > their settings for browser resolution.
> >
> > Likewise for lilypond.org .  Can you explain your changes?
>
>
> Let me continue from the point mentioned in the above extract. Take,
> for example, page:

> What is the direction in which you would like to fix/revert? Currently, 
> the logical structure of the web pages have been described, but the 
> readability of the pages is not quaranteed.

I assume that users are capable of resizing their browser windows 
appropriately, and I always find it offensive when site designers 
pretend to know better what I find more easily readable. For example, if 
I run 1600x1200, I use larger fonts. Your 800px width hack doesn't 
detect this.
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