On Nov 27, 2017, at 3:46 PM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2017, at 3:41 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: >> >> The big down-side is that less >> information is visible on a single screen now, so you have to scroll >> more. But that seems to be the trend with websites these days…. > > The design ideas I tapped into this were old when desktop publishing was the > new hotness. Human factors haven’t changed in millennia. It’s why an iPad > is about the same size as books made before Gutenberg first sneezed.
That’s an incomplete thought. My point is, what’s changed isn’t that we’re getting sloppy in web site design these days, it’s that screens are finally starting to get big enough and to have high enough levels of contrast and resolution that we can afford to put some of the space in that book and magazine publishers have known is a good idea for centuries, and which has had solid science behind it for decades at least. Wall-o-text is hard to read, in any medium. My proposed design changes do not waste space, they buy readability. Also, I just want to emphasize that I do not think this is the paragon of web site design. I hope someone riffs on it and does something even better with it. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
