Re: PG website testing

On 5 October 2010 18:45, Alban Hertroys
<dalroi(at)solfertje(dot)student(dot)utwente(dot)nl> wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2010, at 20:40, Thom Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're currently testing a new javascript change on the PostgreSQL
>> docs.  This is to make sure monospaced fonts still appear at a
>> reasonable size between browsers.  I'd appreciate it if some of you
>> could do some browser testing.  http://magnus.webdev.postgresql.org/
>> Only docs for 8.3 and below are available.  Please also check the main
>> site for font issues, and post any issues you find here.
>>
>> Thanks :)
>
>
> The font displays a bit smaller than on the live site using Safari 5.0.2, but it seems to make some of the documentation easier to read - especially when there's lots of monospaced text in it. With the smaller size the code also doesn't catch the eye as much, of course.
>
> One thing I noticed is that the italic version of the lower-case 'e' looks a little smeared along the horizontal line inside the curl. For example in: http://magnus.webdev.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-aggregate.html
>
> In Firefox 4b6 the monospace text looks a bit compressed at the top, like something heavy has been lying on it for too long. Not sure how to describe it, but the top half of the font seems smaller than it should be.
>
> I attached some small screen-shots of those "problems" so that you can judge yourself.
>
> Good work on how the documentation looks as of late btw, they're a pleasure to read. Even more so than before.

Thanks for the feedback.

To me your attached images look quite normal. I do, however, still
get the feeling the font is a tad too small in Firefox. It calculates
a size change of 1.33(recurring), which gets rounded down to 1.3em.
I'm wondering if this should be rounded up. It certainly looks more
consistent in Firefox and Chrome, and should have no effect in Opera.
Since I've only just done this, I can't test it in IE until I have a
look at work tomorrow:
http://pgweb.darkixion.com:8081/docs/8.4/static/functions-datetime.html

Any better? Worse?

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