Text-columns and CSS

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Thu Oct 26 06:42:07 PDT 2006


On Thu, October 26, 2006 7:02 am, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> I very much hope that the (future) DargonFly BSD pages will
> be viewable on any browser, even without JavaScript, with
> cookies disabled, with user CSS settings overriding those
> of the page author (or even without any CSS support at all).
>
> The current paegs at dragonflybsd.org render perfectly fine
> in lynx, links, w3m, dillo and other text-mode or otherwise
> simple and lightweight browsers (although the Wiki seems
> to be broken right now).  They even work in Opera's C64 mode.
> ;-)

Well, that's something of a no-brainer - The existing pages are actually
not that consistent; it renders in quirks mode, so it doesn't match
between IE and Firefox, and the font size can be way too small depending
on a user's system and settings.  The proposed layout fixes that, among
other things.






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