From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199901130200.VAA22996@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Re: New logo PostreSQL
In-Reply-To: <369BF931.92158EDB@rbbsystems.com> from Nick Bastin at "Jan 12,
	1999  8:40:40 pm"
To: nbastin@rbbsystems.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:00:55 -0500 (EST)
Cc: docs@postgresql.org
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > > http://www.parc.xerox.com
> > >   simple look, but very dynamic action
> > >   (scrappy, run your mouse across the menus)
> > 
> > I didn't like this.  Too much white space, did not spread across page.
> 
> What, exactly, is spread?  If you mean 'width' across the page, not
> having it is, IMHO, a good idea.  I like a clean narrow (possibly long)
> page.  I don't know about anybody else, but I like to do other things
> when I'm browsing the web, and narrow pages give me more screen real
> estate to do that (it's more intuitive to scroll down than across). 
> Wide pages are a pain on small displays, and waste precious screen space.

I used fvwm, so I have multiple desktops, and Netscape gets to fill its
own at 1000x640.  Our current page spreads the text across the browser
window.  In a narrow browser, it disiplays narrow text.  I agree you
can't define it to be wide by default, but it should be able to fill the
window.  You can even define margins of whitespace, to say 10% of the
window width.

The major problem is that if you go with text that is inside an
image/imagemap, you can't just have the text wrap inside the window. 
There is no way around that unless you can auto-size the image based on
the browser size, but that probably is impossible.  Any text trapped
inside an image is going to look very small in a large browser window
because you have to design for the smallest browser window, which
probably has a width of ~600 pixels.


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