RFC: Home page design

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Tue Sep 15 01:04:21 BST 2009


2009/9/15 Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com>:
> Denys Duchier wrote:
>> Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> writes:
>>
>>> http://people.canonical.com/~ianc/dancingmonkeys/ for the
>>> "live" result.
>>
>> it's really nice to see it live... except the text is too small for
>> comfort.
>>
>> A web site has no business modifying the font size of the main text.  It
>> should come out exactly the way the USER finds most comfortable and has
>> set up as a default in their browser.
>>
>> Sorry for chiming in with a negative comment, but web sites where I have
>> to hit Control-+ several times just to be able to read the main text
>> tick me off.
>
> No problem - the feedback is appreciated.

I agree about the font size.

>
>> PS: also, why is this not using the full width of my window?

I think this is a more reasonable decision, to make the text be a
sensible number of words wide rather than the full width of the
screen.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>



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