Hello,
The new view works ok, I even tested the site-map with lynx, it works!
I definety like this look. Count me also in on the votes against frames
please. I also do not find the text wrapping around the sitemap very
nice. I like the broad left margin model better.
Kind Regards, Martijn
George Woltman wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> Summarizing the feedback from the first round:
>
> 5 votes for liking the new look, 2 votes against.
>
> 2 votes for frames, 7 votes against.
>
> 4 votes for too slow.
>
> Here's what's new this round.
>
> 1) I dumped the mouse rollover and replaced the 44 different menu
> gifs with one navbar gif. This should help our European friends
> suffering from slow load times due to downloading separate gif files.
>
> 2) The text now wraps around the navbar. Some found the white space
> below the navbar ugly. I'm not convinced this is any better.
>
> 3) The status table should display OK in netscape.
>
> 4) The MSIE improperly terminated string bug is not fixed. I
> actually
> think its a bug in MSIE.
>
> 5) I added alt tags to all <IMG> entries.
>
> 6) The icons at the bottom of prime.htm are in a neat little row -
> thanks
> to someone that suggested putting them in a table.
>
> Here are the big open issues. I've not decided how to resolve them.
>
> 1) I really wanted the menu to stay fixed in a frame (I like being
> able
> to navigate anywhere in the site with one click and no scrolling), but
> sentiment against frames is quite strong. Also the current navbar
> doesn't
> fit in all screens (its 623 pixels high). I could offer a frames,
> non-frames,
> and text-only versions without too much trouble.
>
> 2) The status and benchmark pages - the most difficult to convert to
> the
> new style - now have trouble fitting in the browser window. I can try
> smaller
> fonts or add enough text above the tables so that they appear below
> the
> navbar.
>
> 3) A redesigned banner at the top of every page. Many others have
> remarked how they too are poor graphic artists!
>
> 4) And, of course, organizing the content! Along with displaying it
> in pleasing fonts and colors on a compatible background.
>
> The latest incarnations can be viewed at:
>
> http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml/prime.htm
> and
> http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml/status.htm
> and
> http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml/bench.htm
>
> More comments are of course welcome!
>
> Thanks again,
> George
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