Rene Rivera wrote:
Joel de Guzman wrote:
I still don't understand why there needs to be a difference
between the L&F of the "standalone" documentation and the "web"
based documentation. Is there a rationale?
It's consistency for the plain reason of reducing the jarring visual
context switches a visitor would go through when reading through the web
site. Just think of all the design flips one goes through when reading
the current web site.
You did not answer my question ;)
If we are going for uniformity, then we should definitely strive
for a common L&F for both the "standalone" and "web" docs.
I don't think there's an overwhelming reason to make offline and online
docs look exactly the same. They are specifically design for different
uses so what is good in one may not be good in the other.
I disagree. I see no difference whether it's online or offline.
Their uses are the same: for the docs: reading. What else
reason would there be?
I'd
say there are lots of good designs found in Rene's rendition but
it's too big a departure from the BoostBook L&F that we have
worked hard on to reach it's current form. Sure, it's not
perfect, but it's the result of endless discussion on this list
and the boost list as well.
Exactly :-) Which is why I didn't want to change the offline L&F. And
why I tried to keep the basic elements of the L&F in the online L&F of
the docs.
If that's the reasoning, then you should also refrain from
changing the online docs. Those are the works of individual
authors with individual preferences.
While I welcome improvement tweaks
here and there, I'd be sad if we'll just throw away the work done
so far.
I should say that it's not my intent to throw away work on the online
L&F either. So if there's some style that I missed to incorporate from
the BoostBook L&F to the online equivalent please point it out.
A lot. As I've been saying: start with what we have, improve on it
through evolution.
Regards,
--
Joel de Guzman
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