Sherry, Some of the problems which Mark has identified have been reported to Legacy for many years, I remember about 10 years ago reporting the incorrect nesting of the tables which Mark mentions, and it has been on the programmers' list since then - I think Wm Voss managed to get it to that stage. Since then nothing.
Requests have been made for CSS on numerous occasions, result deathly silence. Fortunately we have Dennis's LTools which cleans up the code and allow a comprehensive use of CSS. Mark is quite correct in saying, or at least implying, that browser technology is now so far in advance of Legacy that I can see the Legacy pages going where IE6 has gone! I suspect that the generation of the web pages code has been neglected since first written, other than having been degraded by changes to reports without consideration being given to the effects on the web pages. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Sherry/Support Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Web CONCEPT pages Mark, I hope you shared this information with the programmers! Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Mark Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have taken a respite for the past couple of months from writing my > follow-up book to The Legacy Family PDF to actively put down on paper > (well > in this case - a web page) my ideas for improved Legacy Web Pages. > > The current Legacy web pages serve the program well, however, there have > been numerous errors (as a programmer) from a web-coder's point of view > that > have concerned me for the past five major version iterations, as well as > out-dated design issues. > > Some of the problems I have found in the Legacy web pages are the heavy > use > of tables as a layout format, lots of unclosed tags, which can make the > former extremely difficult to following if you are able to understand and > read the code. Naturally not a lot of you will look at the code, and > because > the current code has a degrading factor which browsers exploit and > overlook, > you'd be none the wiser, unless informed, as I have done. > > Who cares, well I do for one, and that leads onto the next point about the > lack of CSS in the Legacy Web Pages. Cascading Style Sheets allow for all > styling to be in one place, making it quicker, neater and easier to > change. > It is also evolving - CSS 3 is in a roll-out phase, and browsers are > changing to adapt as it becomes available. In using CSS 3, I have been > able > to eliminate a lot of images that would have normally be used for layout > such as rounded corners - no longer the case. > > Tackling these issues, I thought how would I have the web pages designed > for > Legacy in a way that will give them an all new fresh look. These "concept" > pages have not and probably will not evolve into Legacy, but I am willing > to > try. And at the same time will be a little fun to see what you all think > of > the current pages verses the concept pages. Because of the advanced > styling > techniques used, make sure you are viewing these files using the latest > browser version - FF7, Safari, Opera, Chrome15 or IE9. > > Remember these are concept pages, so may never see the light of day. I > have > set up specific email addresses in case you wish to respond to any of the > web pages. I shall create a special web page that will detail the results > if > anyone responds. Even if you do not currently use web pages in Legacy, I > am > interested in what you think as well. To send any feedback, I will only > reply to emails sent to the designated email sites I have set up. To do > so, > navigate to the site below then click the feedback tab is where you will > find the email links. > > For further information, please see, visit the concept pages web site at > http://www.easygensolutions.com/concept/index.html. > > Enjoy. > > Kind Regards > Mark Lang > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
