Bug 170578

Summary:	Width of Red Hat website appears to be fixed; looks terrible if I enlarge my fonts
Product:	Red Hat Web Site	Reporter:	Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Web Development <webdev>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Web Development <webdev>
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Description Dave Malcolm 2005-10-12 23:42:11 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050901 Epiphany/1.8.0

Description of problem:


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  View www.redhat.com with a high-resolution screen mode
2.  Rescale fonts so that it's legible

  

Actual Results:  Web site continues to use a narrow band in the middle of the screen; everything is crushed within this narrow band and is 

Expected Results:  Website should expand to use at least some more of the available screen real-estate

Additional info:

Comment 1 Luke Meyer 2005-10-13 17:23:03 UTC

That's the design decision the team made, and I don't see it changing much. 
You'll have this problem anywhere with a fixed width -- see nytimes, yahoo, etc
-- it's a popular choice for static text media.