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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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>- Can we have the "warning"/"important"/"note" stuff with a graphical icon |
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> and a nice rounded border? But without having it take up too much space of |
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> course. |
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That would probably be a good idea. Pretty easy to do as well with CSS |
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(eg :before & border-radius), but it won't show up in all browsers. |
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Alternatively one could of cource add graphical images which is a bit |
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more "clumsy" & b/w hungry way to do it, but more reliable. What method |
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to choose, if implemented, basicly comes down to how severe one thinks |
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the loss of the visual image & rounded corner is. |
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>- Perhaps the td's of a table should have a wider padding, the text |
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> currently touches the borders (or at least it seems like this) |
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I don't understand/see where this text is that touch borders , then |
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again I also think the tables should be replaced in any case. |
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>- Is it a good idea to have the contents indented wrt the titles? Some |
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> people find it less readable - I don't have a personal opinion though, |
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> just passing along |
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Feel somewhat like a parrot now, but a tableless design allows for a |
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greater flexibility in indentations/placement of different parts. |
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>- The titles of the news items currently have a colored background. If you |
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> have two news items with different length, it disturbs the vision a bit. |
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> Can we use a fixed width for this coloring or don't do any color at all? |
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My vote would be for preferably no color at all. |
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Colored backgrounds is always a bit "dangerous" to use since not |
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everybody has the same colorvision. In worst case it could make text you |
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are trying to emphasize almost or compleatly unreadable to a person with |
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some deficiency in their ability to see certain colors. Thus though |
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background colors can sometimes look more astetically pleasing, |
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size/boldness/borders are usually a better alternative to highligting |
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something from an accessability POV. |
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>Further, we should take a look at how we would display a plethora on |
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>authors/editors (such as on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml) |
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>Aaron's design (see http://www.siphos.be/~svermeulen/gentoo/generic.html) |
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>looks good for one, perhaps a few, authors, but might need some tweaking for |
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>a larger amount. We can do some magic on this, such as having |
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> Authors: Sven Vermeulen, Daniel Robbins, Chris Houser |
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> Editors: Eric Stockbridge, Rajiv Manglani, Jungmin Seo, Stoyan Zhekov, ... |
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>but even doing so would generate about 11 categories for the handbook page. |
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That looks like a generally good solution. To solve the "11 categories" |
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problem we could possibly add a show/hide functionality with scripting |
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if people think it's needed. Though I would like to see a mockup of this |
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(I assume) worst case scenario with your suggested layout before making |
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up my mind about if it's needed. |
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/ Stefan |
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PS Aaron, are you on the list now or should I/we continue CCing you |
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directly? |
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