hey Skier...try the FLOSS Manuals remix : http://www.flossmanuals.net/remix
you can read about it here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/Remixing adam On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:45 -0700, S Page wrote: > Looking at http://en.flossmanuals.net/OLPC_simple and > http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/Introduction , the content is most > excellent! But the presentation needs work. I hope these are easy to > fix. Should I file Trac bugs for them? > > * The manual doesn't fit on my XO screen (Browse 95 on 8.2-757) *and* > there's no way to horizontally scroll it. In e-book vertical mode, even > less text is visible That seems like a show-stopper. The first line > "The XO laptop is designed to help you, your family, and your > community to learn and grow, and to" > is cropped to > "The XO laptop is designed to help you, your family, and your > community to learn and grow" > in regular mode; I have to View > Zoom out twice before I can see all > the text. The line is cropped to > "The XO laptop is designed to help you, your family, and y" > in vertical e-book mode; I have to zoom out about 5 times before I can > see it all. > > The HTML for the book must not force a particular width. Maybe this is > coming from the gray box around the text. I see a ds-contentcontainer > <div> with width:654px and a few other divs and tables that may not be > necessary. > > * The orange and "fishnet over flesh" ( 8-) ) theme is jarring and > inappropriate. > ** I think eliminating > background="/publish/OLPC_simple/rsrc/TWiki/FlossSkin2/background.gif" > in the <body> tag will get rid of the fishnets > ** Maybe the fleshtone in the main text will go away if you eliminate > background:#FFF7F0; > in <table id="ds-layout" > ** The orange isn't quite OLPC's orange, I think it's #ff7f00 vs. #f78f1e. > ** The gray margin around the text is the only Sugar-like element. But > it wastes space and imposes a tight margin next to the fishnet so it > doesn't feel expansive but like a photocopy of a page on the screen. If > you got rid of it I think the material would be more pleasant to read, > and maybe the text would flow to fit the screen. > > * Is it possible to have conventional < previous ^ top > next chapter > advance links in each chapter? > > If not, the only navigation is the left-hand box. > > * The CSS for the left-hand box eliminates the distinction between > visited and unvisited links! This is very bad for navigation (see "3. > Not Changing the Color of Visited Links" in Jakob Nielsen's "Top Ten > Mistakes in Web Design" http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html ). > > * The "Introducing the XO" text in the left-hand box overlaps itself In > Firefox 3.1pre and on my XO at every zoom level. > > * The left-hand navigation uses a color change and a rule above to > indicate each section, but wiki pages use a font size increase and a > rule as underlines under section headings. > > * The two icons above the left-hand navigation box do the same thing (go > to '/' ), don't seem like useful to kids on the XO, and the back arrow > is confusing below the browser's own back arrow. > > I've done a little bit of CSS tweaking but I've never created .css from > scratch. So if you want I can propose exact changes, but I'd be > guessing and messing. (BTW I used Google Chrome to inspect elements, > the Firebug extension to Firefox is even more powerful.) > > * The <title> tag for every page is the same "OLPC_simple (en)". This > makes the history (hover over the back button) useless, makes > bookmarking harder, and prevents Browse and Firefox 3's Awesome bar from > working (you can't type "insta" and magically "Installing new > Activities" shows up in the location field). > > The "Introducing the XO" does heading capitalization right. > * But in http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/Introduction , when I see > "WHAT IS AN ACTIVITY?" I just get anxious. > ** Also in the Sugar manual, some of the Appendices are mixed case no > spaces. Just use "Joining activities") > > I hope this helps, I'm sorry to appear so critical. Again, well done on > the text of the manuals! > > -- > =S Page > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
