On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:25:24 +0400, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
In the last episode, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
AG>
AG> Do you mean www.gentoo.org? If yes:
AG>
AG> IMHO this should not be filed as a bug. The colors all over the page
are
AG> consistent and the links, which are not exactly purple, are visible.
The colors are consistent, but the links are only visible against the
light
background of the side, not against the top.
Since AG> they turn to light green when the mouse points at them it is
impossible to AG> click a wrong link.
That is obviously browser-dependent, since they don't change when I
point to
them on mine. Besides, that is just bad design.
I agree that without the mouse highlight the menu may look badly with some
monitors (that is, strangely configured CRT or not very good LCD; of
course, I understand that there may be very good reasons to configure the
monitor that way, so that adjusting the monitor is not a solution).
I do not insist on the following since it may cause a flame war, but I
guess that if a browser does not respect the "a.menulink:hover" construct
(which is responsible for the green highlight), then it is a buggy browser
and a bug report should go to its developers.
Personally, I would ask the web designer to specify image sizes in the img
tags, remove links that point to the very page being displayed, find
another way to indicate that a link has been visited than making it bold
(bold means something more important than plain, not less important since
already visited), make the sidebar and top menus consistent, make the path
to the page easier to see, and so on. However, I guess that it is
impractical to fix all that right now due to the law of the diminishing
returns.
So, I agree that the menu may cause inconveniences under some special
conditions, but I vote against filing a bug. On my monitor the colors are
just right. I cannot imagine any quick fix that will make the menu
contrast higher without damage to the overall page consistency. I agree
that a better design is possible, but what we have is good enough.
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Andrei Gerasimenko
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