[Bug admin|web|git/11934] web pages: small fonts in CSS

["carlos at systemhalted dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11934

--- Comment #7 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org> 2012-02-11 23:21:02 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > This is in fact the way the main text on the new glibc website is laid out. The
> > central column does not have a fixed size and adapts to the window width.
> > Though below a minimum width it begins to wrap oddly.
> 
> Yes, I can see that on my Nokia N900 with "Very large fonts" in the settings.
> However it is still very readable (there's just a minor text overlap).
> 
> Now, text overlap can partly be fixed. First, there's a bug in the CSS: for
> #banner, "height:" is provided twice. One of them should be removed. Then
> "height" could be replaced by "min-height". This would avoid the overlap of the
> title.

I removed the #banner->height:60px and switched both #banner and #footer to
min-height. Thanks!

> The overlap of menu items is due to the padding: With Firefox, the background
> of some item can partly hide the text of another item. But I don't get this
> problem with Chromium. So, it may be a bug in Gecko. If need be, the problem
> can be avoided by using a line-height in ul.menu (though this may slightly
> change the layout in the normal case).
> 
> BTW, I wonder whether the 51px margins (in addition to the 10px margins of the
> body) are really useful. They seem to me more a waste of space (in particular
> on a small screen) than anything else.

I would be more than happy to take patches against the current website if you
want to cook something up that is better for accessibility? File a new issue
with a patch and I'll review it.

http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Website%20Maintenance

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