On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote:
On 1/30/13 1:41 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
A couple of screenshots to save people the effort:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**767553/eiger-normal.pnghttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-normal.png
On 1 February 2013 10:05, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
yet another one requires JavaScript (though it has more features; check
icons on top):
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/redefined/?page=Barack_Obama
Looks nice! Feels a bit visually busy ... maybe not being used to it.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks nice! Feels a bit visually busy ... maybe not being used to it.
The languages dropdown seems a bit mystery-meat navigation to me -
perhaps head it Other languages like the Categories dropdown next
to it.
Yeah, the
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks nice! Feels a bit visually busy ... maybe not being used to it.
The languages dropdown seems a bit mystery-meat navigation to me -
perhaps
On 1 February 2013 10:16, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
This page appears to break it:
https://toolserver.org/~magnus/redefined/?page=Factory%20Benelux%20discograpjhy
Well, *that* link is a typo. This link loads the article:
On 1/30/13 1:41 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
A couple of screenshots to save people the effort:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-normal.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-three-columns.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-three-columns-more.png
Looking at these, it's remarkable
Thanks! I'll be fiddling with it some more; now that TOC and thumbnails are
in separate columns, they don't really need the grey background etc.
Also, help would be appreciated; for example, I can't figure out how to
top-align the TOC (position:absolute) and have it bump down left-side
thumbnails
Update: Current Eiger page:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23027995/Eiger%20current.png
The TOC is partially obscured by the image, but it will pop into the
foreground if you push the mouse over it.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
A couple of screenshots
On 28 January 2013 20:20, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I found this one visually appealing:
http://dribbble.com/wirwoluf/projects/104912-wikipedia-redesign
No doubt others will now take it apart :-)
Minor quibbles:
* The header hits a common problem - treating
On 29 January 2013 11:46, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
* The header hits a common problem - treating read/talk/edit/history
as four different interfaces to the same page, while they're really
three interfaces to the page (read/edit/history) and one link to
another page (talk)
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Minor quibbles:
* The header hits a common problem - treating read/talk/edit/history
as four different interfaces to the same page, while they're really
three interfaces to the page (read/edit/history) and one link
On 29 January 2013 12:10, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I couldn't find a way to comment to the designer to point them to this
thread or to the WP redesigns page ... can anyone else work out
Dribble's exquisitely-designed interface?
I found my way to the designer's website and
For those of you who like to try out a similar three-column layout, this
just fresh from the presses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/common.css
(activates on wide screens only)
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:55 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 January 2013 12:10,
Hey, that works :)
I put it on userstyles.org. So if you use the Stylish plugin for
Chrome or Firefox, you can add it here:
http://userstyles.org/styles/82333/wikipedia-3-columns-magnus-manske
Steve
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
For those
A couple of screenshots to save people the effort:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-normal.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-three-columns.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-three-columns-more.png
Looking at these, it's remarkable that we've put up with such a bad
layout for
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:46:51 +, Andrew Gray wrote:
* The three-column system will look strangely constrained for pages
with very short (1 screen height) infoboxes or very few headings.
* It's not clear what would happen to our usual mass of footer
navboxes, most of which assume
I found this one visually appealing:
http://dribbble.com/wirwoluf/projects/104912-wikipedia-redesign
No doubt others will now take it apart :-)
- d.
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One thing this and previous designs agree upon is to use a three-column
layout for content. On today's wide screens, reduced line length for the
main text should improve readability, and still use the side columns
pragmatically; it seems the TOC usually goes to the left, and infoboxes to
the
There is an ideal column width for readability, which is well understood in
newspaper publishing but less so in books and even less so on the web. I
think its around 10 words.
-Steven
On Jan 28, 2013 2:00 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com
wrote:
One thing this and previous designs
On 28 January 2013 22:17, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
There is an ideal column width for readability, which is well understood in
newspaper publishing but less so in books and even less so on the web. I
think its around 10 words.
Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have
On 28 January 2013 21:59, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
One thing this and previous designs agree upon is to use a three-column
layout for content. On today's wide screens, reduced line length for the
main text should improve readability, and still use the side columns
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.comwrote:
One thing this and previous designs agree upon is to use a three-column
layout for content. On today's wide screens, reduced line length for the
main text should improve readability, and still use the side columns
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have pages, but
screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch
indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it
like a newspaper is
Newspaper columns are not all of uniform size. Layout editors choose one
width from within a certain readable range of column widths. Different
stories may be of different widths, but a particular story will keep to the
same width, as different widths would look strange. Of course if a story
jumps
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