Definitely higher tech. I personally like the green color scheme and retro look of the current site as well :)
Can we keep the green? On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Sam Bull <sam.hack...@sent.com> wrote: > On sab, 2014-04-05 at 15:36 +0200, René Dudfield wrote: >> here's a preview of the HiFi part of the new pygame website... >> >> http://pygame.org/hifi.html >> >> >> What do you think? > > Looks really nice, but there are a few issues with it at the moment. > > Horizontal scrolling is rather unnatural and weird to navigate. If it > were an unordered collection of elements designed to scroll through, > then I would expect to be able to scroll naturally with the touchpad. > However, it appears to be grouped into distinct categories, which are > meant to represent different parts of the site. In this case, I would > expect it to paginate. Clicking the left/right arrow, or keyboard > buttons would snap it over to the next category. Obviously, this would > require the content to reflow, so the whole category fits onscreen, on > my laptop I'm seeing 3.5/5 columns when looking at 'show'. Some of this > could be compacted, for example using a more typically sized Twitter and > Reddit stream, and then displaying one under the other. > > > I also have no clue what the category names are supposed to mean. > > There is some issue where keyboard focus seems to get lost, and then > left/right stops working. But, up/down continue to scroll as per normal > browser scroll. Then, clicking on the page to regain keyboard control > and pushing down causes the website to zoom back up to where it last has > keyboard control. > In fact, just found an easy way to reproduce. Scroll down the page > with > the mouse wheel, then press down on the keyboard, and it zooms back up > the page. (I'd suggest just leaving this up/down scrolling to the > browser controls, I can imagine it causing accessibility problems if > overridden.) > > Also, this is completely unusable on my phone. > > It's a good look, but needs a number of usability improvements. -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow
