On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > On 3/21/2012 2:46 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ned Batchelder<n...@nedbatchelder.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> You can use Ctrl-+ to increase the size of the text, and modern browsers >>> remember that for the next time you visit the site. >> >> That doesn't mean the web designer shouldn't think at least twice >> before specifying a smaller font than the browser default. >> > Yes, sorry, that was exactly my point earlier in this thread. I was being a > bit snarky with Serhiy. Seems the standard here is for people to request > their personal favorite tweaks, and then tell others that they can use > browser customizations to get what they want. > > Guido, you encouraged us to use science, but only after describing my > science-based maximum line-length suggestion as "coddling," then said we > should let Georg get on with it, but only after reiterating your personal > favorite tweak (which I happen to agree with).
I have a fair number of strong usability gripes about current (and past :-) design trends, but I know I can't design a decent looking website myself if my life depended on it. > There's no way a committee (which this thread effectively is) will come up > with a good design. Everyone will dislike something about it. I think it > would be interesting to use the power of the web to provide docs whose style > could be adjusted a few ways to make people happy, but that is probably more > than anyone is willing to volunteer for, I know I can't step up to do it. I think it's fine to have a bunch of folks submit their pet peeves (and argue them to the death :-) to the design czar and then let the czar (i.e. Georg) decide. > Personally, I think two Python projects that have focused on docs and done a > good job of it are Django and readthedocs.org. Perhaps we could follow > their lead? I think they are actually more trend-followers,and they seem to make a bunch of the mistakes I've fulminated against here. But again, I'll leave it to Georg. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
