Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Small issue in online devel documentationbuild

Web team, any thoughts on the CSS details?

On 3/4/17 02:00, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> 
> Hello Peter,
> 
>> I think what you are looking at is the web site stylesheet.
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> The whole thing looks fine to me using the default stylesheet.  On the 
>> web site, it looks wrong to me too.  I don't know what the rationale for 
>> using 1.3em for <code> is, but apparently it's not working correctly.
> 
> Indeed. The idea of relative size is to be able to adjust the size for the 
> whole page and have everything scale accordingly... however this mostly 
> works well with text, but not with images. It seems that the trend is now 
> to specify absolute size, and to let the browser do whole page scaling as 
> required by the user.
> 
>> We could perhaps consider which markup style is better, but the problem
>> is that it's hard to enforce either way going forward.  So we need to
>> find the root of the problem.
> 
> The root of the problem is the combination of relative size & nesting, so 
> one or the other has to be removed:
> 
>   (1) don't nest in the input (patch I sent)
>   (2) don't use relative sizes (update the web site CSS)
> 
> Otherwise there are workarounds:
> 
>   (3) CSS work around "code code { font-size: 100% !important; }"
>   (4) unnest code in the output by some postprocessing or some more
>       clever transformation.
> 


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