On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:26:53 -0700, Eric Niebler wrote > David Abrahams wrote: > > If I have any criticism, I'd have to say that > > boldifying links may over-emphasize them. But that is really a minor > > point. > > Please have a look at the updated style: > http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/libs/xpressive
This looks really nice -- reminds me alot of the w3c look and feel, except they don't have contextual code coloring -- all the example code uses a rust red color. For an example have a look at: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html As long as we are comparing, I think this new scheme looks better than some commercially produced docs I just happen to have bookmarked: http://www.roguewave.com/support/docs/leif/sourcepro/html/toolsref/rwzone.html > I have made the following changes, based on feedback here: > > - I have unboldified the links, lightened them up a tad to stand out > better, and added an underline on mouse hover. It's an improvement IMO. I agree. You can still scan for links, but they are less distracting when you are just reading. If you want to get 'modern' with this you could add a background color. The w3c style puts a yellow background in: //highlight links as yellow when hovering over (idea from w3c stylesheet) @media screen { /* hide from IE3 */ a[href]:hover { background: #ffa } } > - The first row of tables get a light blue background, the other > rows get light gray. Also an improvement. Not bad -- the color isn't nearly as distracting from the content as it was before. That said the blue against the gray is still a bit jaring to my eye -- perhaps just a slighty darker gray would be better. > - The C++ syntax highlighing colors are more to my taste. (Ha!) > Feedback welcome. The red isn't a good choice for the #include -- way too bright and distracting. Maybe give { color: #806020 } a try. I'm also leary of the green for comments -- maybe that rust red for the comments ({ color: #800000 } )? This is of course highly subjective, but as an overall principle the color should be subtle and not distracting. > Also, for comparison purposes, I have put up a separate version of > the docs that use a serif font instead of sans-serif. You can find > it here: http://tinyurl.com/4fdyb > > The choice of font has a strong influence on the look and feel. I > encourage everyone to take a second to compare the serif style to > the sans-serif and say which they like better. (My vote goes for > sans-serif.) No opinion on the font -- somehow I must have a blindspot here as it looks about the same to me...unless some browser setting is overriding this somehow. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
