[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpeg.org clean up

[Robert Swain]

2009/2/15 Robert Swain <robert.swain at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Have another look. No more fixed width.

Rob