Received: from mail.rbbsystems.com (woos-asc1-cs-15.dial.bright.net [209.143.18.34]) by hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA14445 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:28:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nbastin@rbbsystems.com) Received: from rbbsystems.com (dial-2.rbbsystems.com [192.168.1.241]) by mail.rbbsystems.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA18841; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:24:27 -0500 Message-ID: <369C2194.D0E5C28E@rbbsystems.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:31:19 -0500 From: Nick Bastin Reply-To: nbastin@rbbsystems.com Organization: RBB Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Momjian , docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [DOCS] Re: New logo PostreSQL References: <199901130200.VAA22996@candle.pha.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > 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 I use a mac, so maybe that's my problem.. ;-) Actually, it doesn't make any difference if I want to be able to see what I'm working on and the browser at the same time (they'd have to be on the same desktop), but I see your point. > 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. Ok, we're on the same page here, I just wasn't sure what you meant by spread... -- Nick Bastin - RBB Systems, Inc. Out hme0, through the Cat5K, Across the ATM backbone, through the firewall, past the provider, hit the router, down the fiber, off another router... Nothing but net.