Re: [gentoo-dev] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

[Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:14 +0000, kang wrote:
> Now people can also use NCSA Mosaic. It's valid as long as you can run
> it. But a browser with vulns, unsupported by the vendor, with a broken
> CSS, I think you do not have to support it. Well of course, if you like
> it just do it ;)
Hmmm.. I think we should "only" support standard HTML/XHTML/CSS.
No need to add "fixes" for known-broken browsers I guess.
(And no "old cruft" where avoidable)

> Oh btw, *great* progress on the design.
Yess, it's getting somewhere. 

> - The bottom boxes are uneven in size, it looks a bit strange. Also i
> still wonder about this whole concept, as its not the first place you
> look for links. I'll take an example:
I'd have expected those in a nice collapsed menu on top with annoying
mouseOver expansion
(I hate that because if you move your mouse across the page you have one
expanded menu hiding whatever is below)
Like this they are "out of sight" and on smaller screens not directly
visible without scrolling.

> http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml
> I am in 1024x768 and I don't see the boxes if I don't scroll. I don't
> think you acn reduce every page so that you see them without scrolling.
> Unfortunately I dont see any good solution. 
The common solution is a menu on the left side, but then it gets tricky
with expanding/collapsing and keeping the whole menu visible.
> Maybe it'll stay this way. I
> would put more than 2 news items on the front page then, even if it also
> hides the boxes a bit on 800x600 or 1024, because it doesnt give much
> info to have 2 items per news page ;)
I guess that's part of it being a prototype and all that ;-)

Some usability issues:
The top right textlinks are too dark and quite small. They aren't easily
readable and don't present themselves as clickable items (especially
with the dotted line below them they look like "random" text)

The "manage / customize / optimize / interact" boxes on the startpage
don't give any useful information (all those links are available in the
"unreadable" text above and in the nice boxes at the bottom. Also their
format looks like GoogleAds to me, so I mentally filed them away as
"more ads".
As they don't appear anywhere else on the website I'd just remove them.

Another (minor) inconsistency is that on the startpage the date stamp on
the left shifts the text to the right, but all other subpages have the
text left-aligned. That is unexpected, I'd like all pages to behave
consistently.
This also includes the "infinity" logo that's only in one place (why
have it at all then?)

Apart from that I like the spartan look. 
Keep up the good work!

Patrick

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