RFC: Home page design

[Martin Pool]

2009/9/15 Wichmann, Mats D <mats.d.wichmann at intel.com>:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>
>>>> PS: also, why is this not using the full width of my window?
>>
>> I think this is a more reasonable decision, to make the text be a
>> sensible number of words wide rather than the full width of the
>> screen.
>
> Fixed-pixel-width frames are an abomination.  They're really showed
> up to their full... hmmm, I can't quite find the word I
> want here, "loser-ness"???... when you fire up a widescreeen
> monitor like my 1920x1080, and actually try to use more than a
> small part of that width for your browser.

I don't think it should be fixed in pixels.  But the point is, do you
really want 50-word lines going across such a wide screen?  It's not
very readable.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>