Re: Two more website styles

* Ralf Angeli (2005-03-23) writes:

> <URL:http://iwi.uni-sb.de/angeli/misc/auctex/multipage-3/>

There is an update of the pages behind the URL above.

* Rounded edges should now be available with any browser.  I used the
  technique Masayuki pointed me to (thanks for the link).  Please
  report any problems with this.  I saw a bright 1-pixel stripe when
  playing with the font size in my browser.  This probably was a
  rounding error.  If I am the only one encountering this, I'll not
  change the implementation.

* There now is a screenshot section.  The thumbnails are done like on
  the old page, i.e. a miniaturized version of the real screenshot
  with a caption below it.  They can flow just like normal text upon
  changing the font size.

  This proposal has some drawbacks.  The available space might not be
  filled very evenly.  On my computer e.g. there are two thumbnails in
  the first row and one in the second leaving a lot of free space
  between them and the navigation bar.  This could be improved by
  shrinking the thumbnails even more.  But I don't think this would be
  good because this would make it even more difficult to provide a
  descriptive caption.

  As an alternative the thumbnails could be included as a vertical
  list with the caption/description at their sides.  This is shown
  behind following URL:
  http://www.iwi.uni-sb.de/angeli/misc/auctex/multipage-3/screenshots-2.html

  Now with the current short captions there would be too much free
  space in the right column.  That's why I cropped the images at 50
  pixels height which doesn't look too bad, I think.  Maybe we could
  also include a little more descriptive text to make it even better.

  Now, including screenshots from other people with other setups could
  lead to some aesthetic problems with size (ratio) and/or color of
  the screenshots.  So an alternative to providing cropped miniatures
  could be to use only a cut-out of the full-size screenshot with a
  fixed width and height.  I did this with the first thumbnail on the
  page.  Together with providing some more descriptive text this is
  currently my favorite.

-- 
Ralf