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Re: Web Page Update [message #46903]

Thu, 12 January 2006 01:12

Timm Weitkamp
Messages: 66
Registered: August 2002

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David Fanning wrote:
> Michael Wallace writes:
>
>> The text on the main page looks fine to me. The primary font on the
>> other pages does seem to be small, but I can still read it. I agree
>> with JD that it does seem to be much smaller than other sites.
>
> Gentlemen, what browser are we talking about here!?
> I've got three browsers going, and I assure you, I do NOT
> see small text. :-(

I looked at the welcome page and the Programming Tips & Tricks page
just now. On both, the fonts do *not* appear small by any standards.
This is Firefox 1.5 and Opera 8.51, both on a prehistoric Windows 98. A
Firefox screenshot is at <http://tinyurl.com/bqud3>. Opera renders the
page almost the same.

Timm

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Re: Web Page Update [message #46905 is a reply to message #46903]

Wed, 11 January 2006 20:39

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

David Fanning writes:

> I've got three browsers going, and I assure you, I do NOT
> see small text. :-(

OK, I don't even need to use my glasses (goodness!) to
read the darn text now. Any better?

Cheers,

David

P.S. Maybe I shouldn't have paid so much money for these
sharp monitors. :-(

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: Web Page Update [message #46906 is a reply to message #46905]

Wed, 11 January 2006 19:50

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Michael Wallace writes:

> The text on the main page looks fine to me. The primary font on the
> other pages does seem to be small, but I can still read it. I agree
> with JD that it does seem to be much smaller than other sites.

Gentlemen, what browser are we talking about here!?

I've got three browsers going, and I assure you, I do NOT
see small text. :-(

Weird. Too weird.

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: Web Page Update [message #46907 is a reply to message #46906]

Wed, 11 January 2006 15:36

Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003

Senior Member

The text on the main page looks fine to me. The primary font on the
other pages does seem to be small, but I can still read it. I agree
with JD that it does seem to be much smaller than other sites. Might I
suggest using relative font sizes in your style sheet?

Instead of something like this,
font-size: 9pt

Use this instead,
font-size: small

That should alleviate the problems due to resolution differences and how
folks have fonts defined in their browsers.

-Mike

P.S. My first post to the IDL newsgroup in a while and it's about CSS.
Heh.

David Fanning wrote:
> JD Smith writes:
>
>
>> The default font size is very small, bordering on unreadable for me. I do
>> have a high pixel pitch, but it's much smaller than other sites.
>
>
> Say what!? What browser is that? My biggest problem up
> to now is that the damn fonts are too big! Sigh..
>
> I may have to stick with the day job and get out of web
> development altogether. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>

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Re: Web Page Update [message #46908 is a reply to message #46907]

Wed, 11 January 2006 15:13

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

JD Smith writes:

> The default font size is very small, bordering on unreadable for me. I do
> have a high pixel pitch, but it's much smaller than other sites.

Say what!? What browser is that? My biggest problem up
to now is that the damn fonts are too big! Sigh..

I may have to stick with the day job and get out of web
development altogether. :-(

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: Web Page Update [message #46910 is a reply to message #46908]

Wed, 11 January 2006 14:55

JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999

Senior Member

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:11:10 -0700, David Fanning wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have been putting in long hours the past several days
> updating my web page. It is not completely finished yet,
> but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel anyway.
> The changes *should* make it easier to update in the future.

One comment on the new look:

The default font size is very small, bordering on unreadable for me. I do
have a high pixel pitch, but it's much smaller than other sites.

Otherwise, things look great.

JD

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Re: Web Page Update [message #46989 is a reply to message #46903]

Thu, 12 January 2006 10:26

JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999

Senior Member

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:12:34 -0800, Timm Weitkamp wrote:

> David Fanning wrote:
>> Michael Wallace writes:
>>
>>> The text on the main page looks fine to me. The primary font on the
>>> other pages does seem to be small, but I can still read it. I agree
>>> with JD that it does seem to be much smaller than other sites.
>>
>> Gentlemen, what browser are we talking about here!?
>> I've got three browsers going, and I assure you, I do NOT
>> see small text. :-(

Mozilla derivatives under Linux... but you must have changed
something, because it looks much nicer now ;). Absolute font sizes
are a problem, because Windows has its own strange idea of what a
"point" is compared to the rest of the world.

JD

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Re: Web Page Update [message #46995 is a reply to message #46905]

Thu, 12 January 2006 07:43

Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003

Senior Member

>> I've got three browsers going, and I assure you, I do NOT
>> see small text. :-(

For what it's worth, I was viewing the page in Firefox on at a
resolution of 1280 x 1024 (on an old monitor).

> OK, I don't even need to use my glasses (goodness!) to
> read the darn text now. Any better?

Yes, much better.

-Mike

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Re: Web Page Update [message #46996 is a reply to message #46910]

Thu, 12 January 2006 07:36

Ken Mankoff
Messages: 158
Registered: February 2000

Senior Member

I'd like to recommend

http://browsershots.org/

-k.

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, JD Smith wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:55:13 -0700
> From: JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> Subject: Re: Web Page Update
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:11:10 -0700, David Fanning wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I have been putting in long hours the past several days
>> updating my web page. It is not completely finished yet,
>> but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel anyway.
>> The changes *should* make it easier to update in the future.
>
> One comment on the new look:
>
> The default font size is very small, bordering on unreadable for me. I do
> have a high pixel pitch, but it's much smaller than other sites.
>
> Otherwise, things look great.
>
> JD
>

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