Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Project website design

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 04/21/2010 04:28 PM, Volker Grabsch wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras<address@hidden>  schrieb:
> > I changed a few things, and also got rid of the single-document style.
> > I use an shtml file for every section and serve them with SSI
> > (server-side includes) which works in every browser since it's done by
> > the web server.
> [...]
> > Of course this approach won't work for offline viewing.  SSI means a
> > web-server needs to serve the documents.  Just opening them locally in a
> > browser won't work.
>
> That's exactly why I decided not to use SSI. The unity of documentation
> and website means that these should be readable offline.

Indeed.  But since in my case it's only a web page, not documentation to 
be included with the tarball, it's not an issue.


> Also, note that the CSS menu does _not_ irritate text browsers.
> In a text browser, this menu simply looks like a table of contents.
> (Well, any menu is some kind of TOC, isn't it?)
>
> So I'm really only working against ancient graphical browsers.
> And for security reasons, those shouldn't be used anyway.
>
> Or, did you have some trouble looking at the mingw-cross-env
> site using a modern browser? If so, please give me a hint. It
> would be important for me to know about that issue.

No issues here.  Note that I kept the CSS menu.  It's just that it gets 
included with SSI so that I don't have to copy it in every page.


> > This also allows to get rid of the "margin-bottom: 100%;" setting in
> > ".section", as well as using "width: 60%;" instead of making the whole
> > page fixed-width.
>
> Yeah, those two compromises were not that clean, but they didn't
> cause any trouble yet, and I didn't find any better alternative
> yet.

The trouble I was having with it is when you zoom-in/out in the page 
(CTRL++/CTRL+- in Firefox, for example.)

In any event, the layout is a Win.  It's one of those cases where less 
is more.  So thanks again for coming up with that design.