Off topic: IE7 was Re: [sdiy] Digital noise source project (replacing MN5837 in Prophet 5and Monopoly)

[Andre Majorel]

On 2008-05-21 17:27 -0700, Ben Lincoln wrote:

> http://browsershots.org/

What a wonderful site ! I'd like to add in typical grumpy manner
that Tom would save himself and his readers trouble by losing that
annoying ever present navigation bar that makes his pages :

1. Harder to navigate by keyboard because you have to skip over a
   bunch of irrelevant links to get to the few links relevant to
   the page you are reading.

2. Harder to view and navigate on displays with less than about
   120 characters per line. Yes such displays still exist : I have
   a 21" monitor running at 1152 x 864 where the font choice means
   80 characters per line so that I can read it from two metres
   away. Also applies to browsers running on portable devices.

   Seeing the page through a smaller window also compounds the
   annoyance of having to tab through the navigation bar. The NB
   renders twice as tall as the screen. If it scrolls to show you
   the currently selected link, the page jumps about. If it
   doesn't, you fly blind. Either way you lose.

3. Harder to print without wasting paper and/or ink. Let alone in
   two columns.

The magic of HTML is that *all* those issues would be
instantaneously solved at no cost by pulling the text out of its
td and moving the navigation links to a menu on the root page.

Sorry for the public lambasting, Tom. Nothing personal. It could
have been about anyone else's site. Like Seb's, for instance. <g>

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