Re: Nav-bar wrap around with 1280px width display

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Nav-bar wrap around with 1280px width display
Date: 2019-02-11 19:59:31
Message-ID: 76C27891-9BEC-4461-A2C4-F9568EB6A449@yesql.se
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> On 11 Feb 2019, at 19:50, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 13:05, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>>> A comment on the Hacker News thread about the new website seems like it might
>>> be useful:
>>> 'Top navigation needs a rethink. At 1280px width resolution "Your account"
>>> wraps to make room for the Search box.'
>>
>>> Just tried it here with Firefox on OSX, and yep the Your Account bit does
>>> wrap around.
>>
>> Yeah, that happens for me too, and it contributes to the excessive
>> use of vertical space that I've been whining about. My display is
>> a good bit wider than 1280px ... but the window I give Safari isn't.
>
> I'm seeing the navbar actually appear on top of the content now hiding
> the first few lines of the page. That completely hides the new release
> banner and partially hides the list of releases making it hard to tell
> what release you're actually looking at.
>
> Didn't we decide to get rid of the fixed nav bar already? It seems
> like just a recipe for wasting precious vertical space, especially on
> small screens like mobile screens.

If you are referring to the navbar hiding content on the documentation pages,
it’s discussed in 558C4385-EEA2-43EF-BC9E-B12AB6316D35(at)yesql(dot)se and Jonathan is
working on a patch for it.

cheers ./daniel

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