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Curtis Napier posted <438174BD.9060100@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:18:21 -0500: |
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> http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org |
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> Also, I only use GNU/Linux and I have only tested on the following |
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> browsers: |
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> Mozilla-1.7 |
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> firefox-1.0 |
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> Opera-8.5 |
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> Internet Explorer-6 under CrossOver Office |
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> Epiphany-1.8.2 |
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> Links-2.1 in text mode and graphics mode. |
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> If you have access to a Macintosh, Windows, *BSD or any other OS or |
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> Browser please test the site and include your OS and the browser version |
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> in your feedback. I haven't received feedback from Konqueror or Safari |
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> so feedback from those browsers would be much appreciated. |
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> The only major outstanding issue is the contents of the menu in the grey |
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> bar at the top and what should appear in the 5 purple boxes directly |
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> under them. Currently I have that menu listed in order of what a new |
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> Gentoo user would need to access first. If you have a better idea of |
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> what should be included in this menu or think something important is |
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> being left out please send that in your feedback as well. |
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You mention links but not lynx. I tried it in both lynx and links/text |
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mode. It's quite impressive in lynx, due to the colors, and decent in |
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links (but you knew that already). |
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The following is pointed out *NOT* claiming that I'm a web dev, or |
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could do any better (or even close to as good). However, as a browser |
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user who has had to educate himself a bit due to author assumptions about |
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defaults that don't always hold. and because you /asked/. =8^) |
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* Set the base tag. I sometimes save web pages for my own |
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use, and like them to work when I do. Adding a <base href= ...> |
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tag would be very useful, here. Without it, saving just the HTML to disk |
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breaks the page rather drastically, because it can't find the CSS and |
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images, as they are relative links. Good to have the links relative; good |
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the formatting is separated from the content to the degree the page breaks |
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without the CSS; bad that there's no base href tag to "unbreak" things |
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when the html page gets viewed on its own. |
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* (This may be an inheritance issue. I didn't check full inheritance |
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but I'm using Konqueror, so if it's an inheritance bug, that's what |
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it's in.) You don't set background color for ads/ads-main or |
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jumppad-main. What happens if a user's preferences are dark backgrounds, |
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light text? |
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- The ad links don't show up, for one thing, because they are set dark and |
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become almost invisible on a dark background. (Browser's link color |
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settings, a foreground item, overruled, without overruling bg prefs, not |
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good when they happen to be almost the same color! |
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- The individual jumppads have bg set (good), so the text shows up there, |
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but they appear contrasted against a dark background, as jumppad-main |
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doesn't set bg, which doesn't look so good. |
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- The content column, with bg set to white, contrasts very sharply with |
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the ad column. |
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- Generally useful rule -- if you muck about with changing some |
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colors from the user's/browser's defaults, change both background and |
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foreground, and consider what the effect will be with both light and dark |
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defaults, for anything you do /not/ specifically set. Try viewing the |
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page in a browser set to light text on dark background, and dark text on |
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light background, as the defaults, to be sure. (It's amazing the number |
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of sites that get this wrong, setting one but not the other on some or all |
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elemets, or fail to set bgcolor when a bgimage is set, for those who don't |
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surf with images turned on.) |
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* Consider the effects of different user/browser font sizes. Here, the |
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white text in the purple boxes (Why Gentoo section) ran into the gray |
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bottom border at my default text size. Scrolling text size up, to where |
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it'd be if I were sight impaired, ran the white text from that area into |
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the white background area below. (Scrolling text size down, it fit into |
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the boxes nicely and was indeed very attractive, so I see the effect you |
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are going for.) Perhaps make those images, so the font size is constant |
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with reference to the boxes intended to contain it? (You'd then set alt |
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tags for those not viewing images, of course.) |
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* I like the jumppad images! That's quite impressive and professional |
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looking, something I'd be proud to show others who know I run Gentoo! |
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* Consider making the "Why Choose Gentoo?" section question visible |
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(something other than display=none). IMO, that would add meaning to the |
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features bullet-pointed in the purple boxes. Maybe make that a |
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purple-background header above that section? |
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* Entirely personal preference: I don't happen to like what I'd call |
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puke-yellow-green (#83b300), but that's just me. I'd prefer either a |
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stronger yellow or a stronger green (or would choose a dark cyan, similar |
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to the background of the phparchitect ad, for the white backgrounded |
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stuff, and a lighter cyan similar to that of the sevenl ad, for the dark |
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backgrounded stuff). Purple is cool, tho! =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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