Re: Another WP redesign

Magnus Manske <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english
Message-ID <CAGHUEtYW8BSEHE3CYAmEp17H0t6LBpC5s17DiVgbL+iLLkcdww@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Mark <[email protected]> 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.png<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.png>
>> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**767553/eiger-three-columns-**more.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 wide screens for so long. I mean, seriously - that
>> eiger-normal.png looks *awful*. The text is far too wide to read
>> comfortably, and then there's this huge white space next to the
>> contents box.
>>
>> And all with a tiny amount of CSS. Great job, Magnus!
>>
>>
> I like it as well. Actually, I recall a previous version from Magnus that
> was sort of like this which I also liked; am I imagining that?
>
> You don't imagine it, but the previous CSS one wasn't nearly as good, and
yet another one requires JavaScript (though it has more features; check
icons on top):
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/redefined/?page=Barack_Obama
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