[darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] Darcs home page updated

Simon Michael simon at joyful.com
Mon Jul 16 18:05:23 UTC 2012


On 7/13/12 4:47 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:
> Simon Michael wrote:
>> On 5/8/12 12:13 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:
>>> I like the new home page with the quick start examples and news etc. But
>>> may I humbly suggest not to use fixed widths for the two columns of the
>>> front page, but rather adapt (mostly the left column) to the user's
>>> window size? If I view the page, I cannot get rid of the scroll bars for
>>> the example boxes, even if I view in full screen mode. This makes the
>>> comments behind the commands hard to read.
>>
>> Hi Ben, thanks for the feedback. The body width is specified to keep the
>> page looking coherent and readable when the window is very large, as is
>> more common these days (a lot of sites do this). I specified the column
>> widths to fit within that with the right proportions, and to avoid
>> scrollbars at default font sizes on all the browsers/platforms I tried.
>> Can you send me a screenshot (eg via http://pasteshack.net , it's
>> super-easy) and tell me your browser, platform, and special font settings
>> if you have any ?
>
> Hi Simon
>
> Coming back to this old thread just to say that with the current version of
> the darcs home page the problem has disappeared.
>
> Again, many thanks for this work, the latest version is even better: links
> to the wiki, nicely grouped, quick install instructions, a very good blurb,
> it's almost perfect.

Thanks Ben. I forward this to Guillaume who did the wiki import and content changes.

I think we need to drop most of the wasteful wiki chrome (compare mercurial's
or git's site, or haskell.org). I hope to look into that soon.



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