How to get to the Xfce 4.4 website

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Brian J. Tarricone schreef:
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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.
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>>> 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.

I strongly agree with that: Use relative sizes (em's are good) and don't 
force font sizes on the user (If I choose a default font size, it's 
because I want to read pages in that font size...).

	Jasper