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On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:14 +0000, kang wrote: |
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> Now people can also use NCSA Mosaic. It's valid as long as you can run |
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> it. But a browser with vulns, unsupported by the vendor, with a broken |
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> CSS, I think you do not have to support it. Well of course, if you like |
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> it just do it ;) |
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Hmmm.. I think we should "only" support standard HTML/XHTML/CSS. |
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No need to add "fixes" for known-broken browsers I guess. |
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(And no "old cruft" where avoidable) |
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> Oh btw, *great* progress on the design. |
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Yess, it's getting somewhere. |
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> - The bottom boxes are uneven in size, it looks a bit strange. Also i |
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> still wonder about this whole concept, as its not the first place you |
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> look for links. I'll take an example: |
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I'd have expected those in a nice collapsed menu on top with annoying |
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mouseOver expansion |
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(I hate that because if you move your mouse across the page you have one |
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expanded menu hiding whatever is below) |
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Like this they are "out of sight" and on smaller screens not directly |
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visible without scrolling. |
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> http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml |
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> I am in 1024x768 and I don't see the boxes if I don't scroll. I don't |
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> think you acn reduce every page so that you see them without scrolling. |
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> Unfortunately I dont see any good solution. |
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The common solution is a menu on the left side, but then it gets tricky |
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with expanding/collapsing and keeping the whole menu visible. |
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> Maybe it'll stay this way. I |
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> would put more than 2 news items on the front page then, even if it also |
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> hides the boxes a bit on 800x600 or 1024, because it doesnt give much |
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> info to have 2 items per news page ;) |
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I guess that's part of it being a prototype and all that ;-) |
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Some usability issues: |
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The top right textlinks are too dark and quite small. They aren't easily |
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readable and don't present themselves as clickable items (especially |
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with the dotted line below them they look like "random" text) |
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The "manage / customize / optimize / interact" boxes on the startpage |
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don't give any useful information (all those links are available in the |
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"unreadable" text above and in the nice boxes at the bottom. Also their |
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format looks like GoogleAds to me, so I mentally filed them away as |
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"more ads". |
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As they don't appear anywhere else on the website I'd just remove them. |
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Another (minor) inconsistency is that on the startpage the date stamp on |
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the left shifts the text to the right, but all other subpages have the |
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text left-aligned. That is unexpected, I'd like all pages to behave |
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consistently. |
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This also includes the "infinity" logo that's only in one place (why |
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have it at all then?) |
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Apart from that I like the spartan look. |
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Keep up the good work! |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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