Ivan M wrote:
Hi Ivan,
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Marcus Lange <[email protected]>
wrote:
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* The page does not seem to scale to 800x600
AFAIK the requirement for all websites is to support 1024x768 as
minimum.
Do
you still work with 800x600?
Thankfully, no :). But the Download home page displays reasonably well
at 800x600 with no horizontal scrolling, so I was just wondering why
your proposal does not seem to scale for widths below 1024px. It's not
a major issue - there probably aren't very many people still using
800x600, but if can be scaled down, why not? I can help out with this
if necessary - it should be reasonably easy to do.
OK, we should keep an eye on 800x600 if possible but concentrate on
1024x768.
* The blue and green download buttons should not be used for RCs/Dev
builds - e.g. from the download homepage, their meanings are: blue
download button is for extensions, green button is for stable major
releases. I would advise against recontextualizing these buttons.
I've made 4 rows just to see if this would still fit on the page. I
think
we
will not see 4 rows in live but who knows. However, I've removed it
now.
Also the colors will change. Have you seen my color suggestion in the
previous posting?
I'm not sure how fiery the buttons should be to alert users about
these downloads - I would suggest:
What about the little disclaimer text above the colored links? Do you
think
it is sufficient? If so, then we can use some not that fiery colors
maybe.
- Lime for RCs (more yellow than green) -or- the same as the bottom
button on download.OOo
I would like to see the same yellow as on download.ooo.
- Orange for Dev 310
- The same for Dev 300 if both have a similar status as dev builds -
having two different colors would suggest (IMO) that one is less
stable than the other (I'm not sure if this is the case or not - if it
is, then something darker than the button for Dev 310 would be
appropriate)
I suggested different colors because of the different codelines. To make
the
difference also clear from the colors, not only from the text. But in
general both are unstable builds.
At this level OOO300 is more stable than DEV300. But this is changing
always. ;-)
IMHO we should see both codelines as unstable as this will be true most
of
the time. So, orange would be nice or light red.
I can make up some buttons based on whatever colors are chosen if
you'd like, and I can add some extra styles to the main download
stylesheet to fix the current CSS issues once the colors are decided
upon.
It would be great if you can help with CSS styling. :-) I've uploaded
the
recent changes, so that my latest update is online now.
Maybe you can create one orange (OOO310) and one light red (DEV300)
colored
link? Then we can see directly what looks better and what we should use
finally.
Other page
* Those gray tables look really unfriendly. Cells could really do
with
some padding.
In order to use a known color I've used the same gray from the bigger
other.html page. Have you got a favorite color that you would like to
see?
It was more of a first impression, but in this case, the
'unfriendliness' might even be functional (sending people who don't
know what they're doing away) :)
I would say let us stay with this gray. We can change it later on when
other
people have the same feeling. Also here my latest update is online now.
Thanks
Marcus
