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20 August 2004

Port

Just installed Firefox 0.93 using FreeBSD's "ports" system. Fairly straightforward, other than the issue of outdated or broken patch files: to wit, for any given port, as the origin software distribution evolves, a patch that previously applied cleanly may stop doing so. I've taken to simply moving an inapplicable patch file out of the way to keep the build process going; so far, this hasn't failed me.

Pointed the freshly minted browser to this site: Ouch, the text is bunched too closely together and my eyes hurt just looking at it.

I can see more CSS dabbling ahead...


Posted by ngps at 01:07 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
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Re: Port

Your site looks great here, FWIW - with Konqueror running on Debian/Sid

I'm not sure how Firefox in XFree86 on BSD would handle fonts, but might guess that the font stuff of the latter and/or the former of those could have something up, thar - guessing that Debian's 'fontconfig' and 'defoma' (the package sources being available, there - it's a bunch of PERL and/or Python, afaik) stuff might be of help, though not sure of how much fun it would be to make either/or to work outside of a Debian setup.

Posted by: Sean Champ at August 22,2004 01:30
Re: Port

Quick check with freshports.org found fontconfig. The Defoma scripts should be worth looking into.

Thanks for the note and the hints.

Posted by: Ng Pheng Siong at August 23,2004 16:34
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