From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Sympa-To: caml-list@inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pA4H8LVX011133 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:08:21 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ak4CABsbtE6K57AEhWdsb2JhbABEhHqlCSIBAQEKCwsFFiWBcgEBBAEjFUEFCwsaAgUhAgIPAkYGDQEHAheHZ6N2kgiBMIZlgRYEmU2MNg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,456,1315173600"; d="scan'208";a="116967558" Received: from ariane.ens-cachan.fr ([138.231.176.4]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 04 Nov 2011 18:08:15 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ariane.ens-cachan.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67C0BCDB8; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:08:15 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ens-cachan.fr Received: from ariane.ens-cachan.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ariane.ens-cachan.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id SXpl9XdJgGPm; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:08:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from olive.lsv.ens-cachan.fr (olive.lsv.ens-cachan.fr [138.231.81.248]) by ariane.ens-cachan.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88435BCD9F; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:08:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from [138.231.81.43] (unknown [138.231.81.43]) by olive.lsv.ens-cachan.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839E44C01B1; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:08:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EB41BF8.70209@lri.fr> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:08:08 +0100 From: Romain Bardou User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.21) Gecko/20110831 Icedove/3.1.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFuaWVsIELDvG56bGk=?= CC: Thomas Gazagnaire , caml-list@inria.fr References: <7EB42100-0E5F-4FBB-8CB8-A318926F0E0E@x9c.fr> <3AFFA70C-BD82-4A7B-94E6-7FAB5BC93148@x9c.fr> <4EB2F67D.6070202@inria.fr> <20111104092409.GA22221@ccellier.rd.securactive.lan> <4D9C7FE8-98E1-4D36-90CE-BDEDA6607338@ocamlpro.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Validation-by: bardou@lri.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Argot: 1.0 release > Another thing is the fixed-width layout. The width of the page is too > wide. First the lines are too long which causes a readability issue: > it makes it hard to read from one line to the other --- depends on the > font but beyond approx. 80 chars per line it becomes hard for > continuous reading. Second I personally never work on 27-inch > displays. With the current design I cannot put my browser window next > to emacs and read the doc without a horizontal scroll bar. The design > grid should be fluid, within reasonable limits (cf. css's min-width, > max-width and if you want to go wild, media queries to use different > style sheets for different devices widths, a few techniques and > pointers here [1]). I agree that the name of the module is too big :) On the other hand, I would advise to be cautious about the fixed width thing. I find it quite annoying when a website only uses 1/3 of my browser window and the rest is filled with blank space. Sure, if a line is too long then it's less readable blablabla. But forcing a fixed width is not a good solution in my opinion. Too often have I increased the font size, only to find out that either: - it did not resize the containers as well, - or the website did not allow font size changes (probably because of the above). In both cases, the user is screwed, especially on small monitors with big resolutions. The user should be able to change the font size and use as much space as he wants. If you find that lines are too long, just resize your window. Sorry for being off-topic ;) Cheers, -- Romain