[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpeg.org clean up

[Aurelien Jacobs]

Robert Swain wrote:

> 2009/2/15 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:25:45AM +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
> >> 2009/2/15 Stefan Gehrer <stefan.gehrer at gmx.de>:
> >> > Robert Swain wrote:
> >> >> I realise we're in the thick of a duel, but I spent my day working on
> >> >> ffmpeg.org. I'm fed up of it being disorganised and ugly and have been
> >> >> for a long time. My web development skills aren't the best and I
> >> >> haven't touched any for a couple of years or so.
> >> >>
> >> >> Anyway, I reorganised the pages a little into sections and
> >> >> subsections, made all pages XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant and
> >> >> consequently added a little CSS for centering. Would this update be
> >> >> welcome?
> >> >
> >> > I would welcome it and also have one small wish:
> >> > If there is any CSS coming in, I would really like to see the site
> >> > setting a font without serifs. That IMHO looks much clearer.
> >> >
> >> > BODY { font-family: sans-serif; }
> >>
> >> Sure, I can add that. The CSS will be easy enough to edit anyway. I
> >> may play around with colours and stuff tomorrow, else do the more
> >> important work of cleaning up the content that is on the site.
> >
> > one request from me as well
> > the page should still display sanely if the browser doesnt support CSS
> 
> Indeed. I just tested this by removing the CSS file and it looks fine.
> I haven't done anything at all fancy. As people on IRC were requesting
> that they could have a peek at it before I commit anything, I stuck it
> on my FTP.
> 
> http://www.swains.plus.com/ffmpeg-test/index.html
> 
> Not all pages are accessible (changelog.html etc) and I have more
> renaming and a big docs overhaul to do, but it should give you a
> little taste.
> 
> Comments welcome but note that I prefer it fixed width
> (when using CSS) to keep the line length limited to something sane
> without having to mess with zoom and stuff. :)

This is damn ugly ! With this fixed size, more than half of my screen
is blank ! And on an EeePC 701, you get horizontal scroll bar :-(
Fixed width looks like a very bad idea...

Aurel