Re: [boost] Re: Front page, one last time.

From: Cory Nelson (phrosty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-13 22:00:34

For a library all about portability, the webpage having so much quirks
depending on what browser you use doesn't seem to fit - I hope you can
get them all fixed.

I do like the clean design though.  Good job.

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:28:16 -0600, Rene Rivera
<grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
> 
> 
> > At 04:47 PM 12/12/2004, Robert Ramey wrote:
> >  >I have to agree, same experience with my IE6.  Even if I increase the
> > text
> >  >size from Medium(default) to Larger, the monospace fonts are much smaller
> >  >than the other ones.
> >  >
> >  >Robert Ramey
> >  >
> >  >> All of the monospace text is unreadably small in a default (I think)
> >  >> IE6 configuration.  At least it is in mine.  It comes out as
> >  >> something lik 6 or 7 point courier.
> >
> > Same here on a notebook LCD screen. But Firefox doesn't have the
> > monospace font problem.
> 
> Fixed. And made sure the size is consistent across browsers.
> 
> Jeff Garland wrote:
>  > I did some testing -- mostly good results.
>  >
>  > Platform/Browser
>  > Linux/Epiphany    -- fine (minor chopping of logo on left side)
>  > Linux/Firefox     -- fine (minor chopping of logo on left side)
>  > Linux/Galeon      -- fine (minor chopping of logo on left side)
> 
> Can't do much about that even if we had a vector version :-( One
> possibility is to let it bleed into the rest of the text. Not a good
> choice IMO.
> 
>  > Linux/Konqueror   -- Search did not render Google logo, instead a
> button with
>  >                      'Google Search' (doesn't quite look right).
> 
> Not all browsers support enough of CSS to change the button image, but
> they should fall back to showing the button label. How does it not look
> right? Is it too small? (I just changed it so for a possible fix in this
> case) Is the text messed up somehow?
> 
> Also, no
>  >                      rollover display on left side menu.  This is
> Konqueror
>  >                      3.2.0
> 
> Again, not all browsers are smart enough :-( For example IE doesn't
> display the rollover frame highlight on the menu either.
> 
>  > Win98/IE 6        -- fine
>  > Win98/Firefox     -- fine
>  > Win98/Netscape 7  -- fine
>  >
>  > WinXPSP2/IE 6     -- fine
>  > WinXPSP2/Firefox  -- fine
> 
> Thanks :-)
> 
>  > Couple minor thoughts:
>  >
>  > 1) I noticed slow loading of the W3C graphics.  I think in the final
> version
>  > we should make these local to the boost site (or ditch them).
> 
> Changed now, it might still be slow as my upload bandwidth is only a T1.
> 
>  > 2) Can we expand the search box a bit?  I think it would make it more
> obvious
>  > and since your design nicely flows the text adding a bit more room
> wouldn't
>  > really change the page much.
> 
> Yes, done.
> 
>  > Anyway, excellent work!
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Daniel Frey wrote:
>  > Two things I noticed, using Firefox:
>  >
>  > Moving the mouse over the navigation bar leads to the items to flicker
>  > on mouse-over/mouse-away. Maybe just a Firefox-issue? But then. "normal"
>  > links don't show that problem...
> 
> It's a Firefox only problem AFAIK. Minor problem though ;-)
> 
>  > The second point is, that the headline for 1.31.0 is now left of Aleksey
>  > Gurtovoy's picture. Maybe that's due to my screensize (1600x1200), which
>  > allows a lot of text in a single line, so there are not enough lines in
>  > the paragraph that contains the image.
> 
> Nice catch! Fixed now.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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