On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 04:20:58PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > As usual, there has been no feedback from citing a mirror of my opinion by > one of the few competent usability experts accessible to web researchers. > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html is not theoretics or > opinion. It's a fact that too small fonts are rampant on the web. > > It's possible I might have had I seen an announcement here that an overhaul > was planned, with lead time provided. In my experience doing so right after > an overhaul is usually pointless. > > I've tried it before with other OSS projects, and with the W3 web site, and > it's been mostly a big waste of time. Mandriva's, Novell's & Redhat's > Bugzillas were exceptions in that improvements were made. Complaining to > Mandriva right after helped, but only because patches were expressly invited > that I found time to provide. > > I don't have plenty of time. Participating in several beta projects saps up a > large part of my spare time, and that time consumption is compounded by the > OSS websites that support them being hard to use. The other problem is that > the weight of styling is usually so extensive that it's usually painful even > to attempt to offer even small improvements. > > All that said, samba.org's CSS is relatively light, so I went ahead and > roughed it out so people get the idea how it could be, and maybe someone with > power to do so and time could take it further in actual application. > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Tmp/Smb/sambaorghome.html mainly also touches fonts, > and works decently with default font sizes not far removed from standard. As > default size is increased, the px-fixed widths begin crowding the content.
Wow that is a lot more readable. The font on some parts of the current samba.org are tiny and bolded and are very hard to read. Yours is much better. > http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Tmp/Smb/sambaorghomee.html touches widths, but not > any images, so background images aren't tailored to actual container widths, > but it does emulate the http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Sites/Ksc/ resolution > independence example provided earlier. That has the Releases and Beyond Samba boxes rather misplaced from each other for some reason. Now very good looking. Other bits may be a bit improved. > http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Tmp/Smb/ contains copies of originals, modifieds, > and diffs of html http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Tmp/Smb/htmldiff.pat, fonts only > css http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Tmp/Smb/cssdiff.pat, & fonts+widths css > http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Tmp/Smb/cssdiffe.pat, all of which are unusable > as-is because I removed relative URLs from hrefs & srcs, but serve to point > out changes made. -- Len Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
