On 27/11/17 18:02, Warren Young wrote: > 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.
I agree with Warren's design and improved readability by adding space. Timeline now has more "air to breath" and is more pleasant to the eye. Cheers, Offray _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
