On 18/05/10 10:08, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:49, Tom Hughes<t...@compton.nu> wrote: > >> Before you all get too carried away with this "extra tab" idea of Ævar's I >> would just like to point out what I've said before about adding more tabs, >> namely that we already have too many and that any attempt add more without >> doing something about the layout is going to have a hard time getting >> merged. > > Yeah, adding tabs is a pain. Mostly because the spaces the tabs take > conflicts with the space the "Hi {{user}} ..." line takes.
Quite - it's already an issue with some languages and/or screen sizes and adding more tabs just makes it worse. > I suggested (and patched it) at one point to solve that the way > Wikipedia does, by moving them apart. That would leave ~20px less > space for the main map. Not such a big deal if it's not *the* site > element anymore. That doesn't work well on netbook type screens though, where vertical space is at a premium. Worse than that, whatever you do the tabs will always overflow if you have a particularly verbose language and/or narrow window. They are, basically, just asking for trouble unless you limit yourself to only having a very small number of them. > It would solve our existing overflow problems, and give us space for > small notices at the top like "Would you like to view osm.org in > $language", or "head over to the wiki for Haiti mapping..". We might > even be able to move the search bar up there, users like the search > field at the top of the page. At least so Google, Wikimedia and others > have gathered. I don't dispute that it might be nice to move the search bar up there but I think we should also remove the tabs and find some other way of navigating between the other major elements of the site. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk