> The current version looks much better. Great job! > That's great news, glad you like it. I'll try address some of your points below...
> One thing I immediately found better looking was to reduce the sidebar > border to only 2px instead of 3px. > Fair enough, I think this sort of thing really is down to personal preference. I set the width of the border to 3px so that it matched the line that separates the tiddlers. I tried having both thinner but felt that the tiddler divider wasn't visually strong enough at that width so therefore made it 3px with the sidebar border matching. > Some more thoughts... > > A) Why do confirmation popups look different from the default popup > message? Also, the public / private buttons are too small! > There are still a few things that need modifying/tweaking and this seems to be one of them. Thanks for pointing it out. > B) TiddlyWiki already comes with quite a bit of StyleSheetOverhead > already making it difficult at times to find the right spot or to undo > all the preapplied styling. With lattice there seem to be even more > and way too many StyleSheetsThisAndThats. This makes the situation > somewhat worse rather than better for TiddlySpace... from my point of > view. > Agreed, I have also had similar issues but now I will be looking to refactor, optimise and reduce the amount of CSS and the number of stylesheet tiddlers. It does need to be more manageable. > C) Please, no "word-wrap:break-word" in the tabsets or anywhere > else... Who even invented that? Hyphenation, anyone? Or, > abbreviat...? ;o) > I'll get on that too :) > D) I find the margins left to the tiddlerDisplay and right to the > sidebar to be quite a waste of real-estate. Think of people using > iframes or screenshots or photo collections in their tiddlers. > I'm afraid this is where I have to disagree with you (although there does seem to be 2 distinct camps), I am a firm believer in trying to make a site as usable and readable as possible. There is solid research that suggests people experience greater cognitive load and find it harder to read lines of text that are greater than 10-15 words long. This is a rule of thumb that is widely used in print media, like books, and becomes even more important when text is on screen. Using this as a baseline, whilst trying to utilise the space as efficiently as possible I decided on the current set up (in an ideal world I would even attempt to shorten the text lines further :) ). Using a standard font size with a resolution of 1280x800 the current tiddler width results in around 22-27 words. At a resolution of 1024x768 it results in around 12-16 words. With the margins reduced you start to get upwards of 30 which becomes harder to read. > E) The buttons jump around when being hovered ...set a transparent > border to the non-hovered buttons. Also, the gradient does not work > properly, not even in FF. Or is it not supposed to? > Ok, I'll check that out too. > Eventually, I fiddled a bit more with the looks... > > http://latticetest.tiddlyspace.com > > Though I tend to sound rather critical ...all in all, this is a real > neat theme! Not a problem, this sort of discussion is real good to have. Once again thanks for the comments. I'll carry on iterating and hopefully we'll solve some of the issues. Cheers, Colm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
