RFC: Home page design

[Denys Duchier]

Emma Jane Hogbin <emma at hicktech.com> writes:

> On Monday 14 September 2009 8:38:02 pm Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>> Martin Pool wrote:
>> >>> 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.
>>
>> Fixed-pixel-width frames are an abomination.  They're really showed
>> up to their full... hmmm, I can't quite find the word I
>> want here, "loser-ness"???... when you fire up a widescreeen
>> monitor like my 1920x1080, and actually try to use more than a
>> small part of that width for your browser.
>
> Thanks for your most insightful response, Mats. I think you will find that you 
> are *not* the target market for the front page of the Web site? Please read:
> 	http://bazaar-vcs.org/BazaarPersonasIt is critical that the front page meet the needs of the target audience. The 
> developers on the list are not the target audience.

Emma, don't loose patience with our er.. vigorous feedback ;-)

I hope our target audience is not an army of clones.  Their hardware,
needs and preferences are going to be varied, and the front-page should
be comfortable for all.

Perhaps a compromise would be to use properties min-width and max-width
to ensure an adaptive formatting within reasonable limits.

Cheers,

--Denys