Bug 170578 - Width of Red Hat website appears to be fixed; looks terrible if I enlarge my fonts
Summary: Width of Red Hat website appears to be fixed; looks terrible if I enlarge my ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Web Site
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Other
Version: current
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Web Development
QA Contact: Web Development
URL: http://www.redhat.com/
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-12 23:42 UTC by Dave Malcolm
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-10-13 17:23:03 UTC
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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

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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.
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