How to get to the Xfce 4.4 website

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 21:10:15 CET 2006


On 1/10/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> On 1/10/2006 10:49 AM, Nick Schermer wrote:
> > On 1/10/06, Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>I agree with all the others. It's a great design. I've just got one
> >>question: Is the page resolution independent? That is, does it use the
> >>full width of your browser window, or is it static width?
> >
> > I  was thinking of both :). 780px and 100%. Enough space in the header
> for
> > a small buttun :P.
> >
> >> I'm asking because I've seen just too many pages on the net that are
> >> static width, and therefore just use a part of your full horizontal
> >> resolution on monitors that are reasonably high resolution (1600x1200,
> >> 1680x1050 etc).
> >
> > Yes, but it's hard to design and in most cases a website "designed" for
> > 780px is a but ugly in 1600px. But i'll give it a shot.
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> Yuck.  This is just lazy, IMHO.  I did my site's layout entirely using
> 'em's.  It's not that hard and will scale to any monitor/font-size
> combo.  The real killer here is the font size: people on 1600x1200
> monitors will likely not be using 12pt fonts in their browser, and if
> you force the font size to be 12pt, it'll be painful to read.  Use 'em's
> only, please.


Maybe 3 font sizes? and i use em's.. okay :).

        -b
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Gr. Nick

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