Re: Another WP redesign

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> 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 newer one is a lot easier on the eyes. Comparing the two,
> the reasons seem to be:
> - more space around between text and borders
> - the links in the TOC are black in the newer one (really effective!)
>
> I don't really have an opinion on all the elements outside the actual
> encyclopaedia content, as I think that's out of scope. Meaning, even
> if we had an opinion, it would be too hard to get it implemented :)
>
> Magnus, I spent a while trying to solve the image-overlapping-TOC
> problem, but I don't think it's possible with pure CSS, given the
> current page structure. With a little bit of javascript, you could set
> the TOC to position:relative (like the images) and set top to be minus
> its current vertical position.
>

Yes, but it's sooooo elegant with pure CSS,  and once I start adding JS,
I'll keep adding code until it becomes self-aware ;-)
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