Fixed a bunch of those points, because I saw them too :-) Thanks for the
valuable feedback Dennis!

2014-12-23 10:19 GMT+01:00 Dennis Du Krøger <
[email protected]>:

> Whoops, of course attachments doesn't work on the mailing list. See it
> here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/upsmh9xqhxsgjna/tempFileForShare.jpg?dl=0
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Du Krøger [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 23. december 2014 10:17
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Website design update
>
> Cool!
>
> A few comments on looks on my phone:
> Everything is hugging the left edge with tons of space on the right. i.e.
> the News sections a bound to the left edge, but the right has a margin.
> I've seen this on quite a few pages, so it might by my phone that is weird.
>
> The page is zoomable, but looks weird when zoomede. I believe playing with
> the options for the meta tag can stop that.
>
> The connector badges/icons look a bit strange: I get two badges on the
> left side with aaaaaalmost space for a third. See "connector badges.jpg"
> attachment. They also look a bit fuzzy on my phone.
> I think the Bootstrap .col system can help out here. It should be able to
> break and adjust the badges properly on all devices.
>
> The download and sections are not doing well with the small width; Text on
> top of text.
>
> Almost the same with the mailing list, but here the text breaks out of the
> box instead. That might actually be the thing that causes the right margin
> I talked about before.
>
> BR,
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kasper Sørensen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 23. december 2014 09:53
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Website design update
>
> That (the meta tag) did the trick! Good catch!
> Den 23/12/2014 09.40 skrev "Dennis Du Krøger" <
> [email protected]>:
>
> > There's many containers, which seems a bit weird, but I don't think
> > that's illegal, they are just not nestable like before. As far as I
> > remember, the only ill effect of not following the rules is weird
> > offsets. But I think the "proper" way is to have each section as a
> Bootstrap .row.
> >
> > In their examples, they have a '<meta name="viewport"
> > content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">' header. I guess that
> > could trigger the proper behavior on mobile.
> >
> > By the way, looking at the code, it seems a little bit of a mix of
> > using Bootstrap with manual styling. I'm not sure that will work out
> > very well, with for all the ways the site can be laid out by BS on
> differing devices.
> >
> > BR,
> > Dennis
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kasper Sørensen [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 23. december 2014 09:24
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Website design update
> >
> > Hmm I removed all the nested containers, but I still see that issue...
> > Very strange.
> >
> > 2014-12-23 9:00 GMT+01:00 Kasper Sørensen
> > <[email protected]
> > >:
> >
> > > Thanks for the tip, Dennis. Lemme see how it works if I remove the
> > > multiple nested containers...
> > >
> > > 2014-12-23 8:36 GMT+01:00 Dennis Du Krøger <
> > > [email protected]>:
> > >
> > >> It looks good, but there seem to be some kind of problem with
> > >> detecting my phone (Galaxy Note 3): The Bootstrap website looks
> > >> properly... Mobile, but the (Bootstrapped) MetaModel site looks
> > >> like a
> > desktop site.
> > >>
> > >> Looking at the source, it looks a bit strange: There's a .container
> > >> within a .container-fluid? As far as I remember, you can only have
> > >> a top level container (.container-fluid for full width, .container
> > >> for a narrow site), everything else must be .row and .col.
> > >>
> > >> Best regards,
> > >> Dennis
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Kasper Sørensen [mailto:[email protected]]
> > >> Sent: 22. december 2014 23:48
> > >> To: [email protected]
> > >> Subject: Website design update
> > >>
> > >> Hi guys,
> > >>
> > >> I've spent a bit of time learning Bootstrap, the responsive web UI
> > >> framework. So I decided to try and convert the MetaModel website to
> > >> a proper bootstrap site. And before I knew it, I was also trying
> > >> out some new ideas for how the "front page" / splash should look.
> > >>
> > >> Could you check it out and provide feedback. Notice also that I
> > >> added the Javadocs in the navigation menu.
> > >>
> > >> http://metamodel.staging.apache.org/
> > >>
> > >> Best regards,
> > >> Kasper
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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