Release notes- Great job

[Rahul Sundaram]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 10:08 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>Great job on initial look for the default homepage.
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>>file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
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>>Impressive,
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>Yes, very nice.
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>A couple of suggestions.
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>Could the width of the text be limited to about 80 characters?
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>Along with this, could some spacing be placed between the lines of text?
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>The width is an issue because eyes move up and down more easily than
>they do left and right, so having less width makes reading easier (think
>news papers that take this to an extreme.)  A good example of this 80
>character requirement can be seen in the source code for the page, where
>the lines are wrapped around 80 characters since it makes it easier to
>read the source code.  (There's a reason why old CRTs and terminals
>where about 70-80 characters wide too)
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>The spacing (leading) actually helps visual discrimination of words
>(nothing above or below to distract) which improves readability too.  In
>fact, studies have shown that you can actually use a smaller font with
>better leading and people think the font is 'bigger' because it's more
>readable.
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>Both of these are very easy to do using CSS and both would improve
>readability.  I know that this means that wide browser aren't filled
>with text, but I'll take readability over a full page of text any day.
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>I know I haven't got these diffs in the right format, but here's an
>example.
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>[rodd at localhost HTML]$ diff fedora.css.old fedora.css
>12a13,22
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>>p, li {
>>      line-height:175%;
>>}
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>>.wholepage {
>>      width:650px;
>>}
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>[rodd at localhost HTML]$ diff index.html.old index.html
>8a9
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>><div class="wholepage">
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>2075a2077
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>></div>
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>[rodd at localhost HTML]$
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>This narrows the page and adds spacing to the lines.  Some resizing of
>images might be useful, but it's a start.
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>Rodd
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Kindly file these suggestions in bugzilla against fedora-docs

regards
Rahul