[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpeg.org clean up

[Robert Swain]

2009/2/15 Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org>:
> 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...

Fine. Too many people have complained about fixed width so I'll make
it non-fixed. But I still think the really long lines are fugly.

Rob