[Bf-webcontent] Bf-webcontent Digest, Vol 63, Issue 10

Sat Jul 25 13:24:22 CEST 2015

I thought that it may have been the browser guessing for one.

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>    1. The Downloads page is hard to read. (John Roper)
>    2. Re: The Downloads page is hard to read. (Nkansah Rexford)
>    3. Re: The Downloads page is hard to read. (Pablo Vazquez)
>    4. Re: The Downloads page is hard to read. (Nkansah Rexford)
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> From: John Roper <johnroper100 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Bf-webcontent] The Downloads page is hard to read.
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> Hi everyone,
> I just took a look at the downloads page and saw that  the tabs had been
> removed. I find this very hard to navigate and to find your platform. I
> don't know why that the tabs were removed, (was it because of the platform
> with the os guesser?) but I just wanted to say that I found the page hard
> to navigate.
> Thanks,
> John
>
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> John roper
> President and CEO of Starlight Graphics Studio
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> From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] The Downloads page is hard to read.
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> I don't hate the current outline, but I also think the tabs were much nicer
> and easier to follow.
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> On Friday, July 24, 2015, John Roper <johnroper100 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I just took a look at the downloads page and saw that  the tabs had been
> > removed. I find this very hard to navigate and to find your platform. I
> > don't know why that the tabs were removed, (was it because of the
> platform
> > with the os guesser?) but I just wanted to say that I found the page hard
> > to navigate.
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John roper
> > President and CEO of Starlight Graphics Studio
> > Boston, MA USA
> > http://starlightgraphics.tuxfamily.org
> >
>
>
> --
> +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | khophi.co
> <http://khophi.co/about>
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> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:15:47 +0200
> From: Pablo Vazquez <venomgfx at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] The Downloads page is hard to read.
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> Hi,
>
> Yes I removed the tabs temporarily, because of the following reasons:
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> - OS guessing was not reliable because of caching (also for some reason
> Firefox
> stopped to work
> <https://twitter.com/andrewpprice/status/623361290778488833/photo/1>, was
> fine on WebKit)
> - It wasn't any easier to navigate (except for the autodetect) and involved
> an extra click
> - Harder to fit on smaller screens, and adding new options such as FreeBSD
> - Unnecessarily hiding important sections
>
> What I mean with the last point, is that for example I added the "Daily" /
> "Bleeding Edge" tab long time ago, but just the other day there was someone
> saying "What? Bleeding Edge, is that new? Awesome!". Some people didn't
> notice because it was just at the end of the tabs list. Even though it's
> been there forever.
>
> The current solution is not ideal. It's convoluted. On the other hand, it
> shows all the information at once, which is good to search in the page and
> for search engines too. Perhaps an easy way to make this simpler to
> navigate is having big OS icons as anchor links to their sections below.
>
> I said temporarily because this is something I'd like to work on since a
> while. At the moment I'm rather busy wrapping up the Gooseberry project and
> then is Siggraph, but is on my to-do list.
>
> --
> Pablo Vazquez
> CG Artist - Blender Institute Amsterdam
> Blender Foundation Certified Trainer
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> Website: pablovazquez.org <http://www.pablovazquez.org>
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> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
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> > I don't hate the current outline, but I also think the tabs were much
> > nicer and easier to follow.
> >
> >
> > On Friday, July 24, 2015, John Roper <johnroper100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> I just took a look at the downloads page and saw that  the tabs had been
> >> removed. I find this very hard to navigate and to find your platform. I
> >> don't know why that the tabs were removed, (was it because of the
> platform
> >> with the os guesser?) but I just wanted to say that I found the page
> hard
> >> to navigate.
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >>
> >> --
> >> John roper
> >> President and CEO of Starlight Graphics Studio
> >> Boston, MA USA
> >> http://starlightgraphics.tuxfamily.org
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | khophi.co
> > <http://khophi.co/about>
> >
> >
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> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:35:36 +0000
> From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] The Downloads page is hard to read.
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> > Perhaps an easy way to make this simpler to navigate is having big OS
> > icons as anchor links to their sections below.
> >
>
> I think that approach will strike a better balance than the tabs only or
> the current state. The OS icons anchor links can line up nicely (and
> respond to page sizes accordingly - responsive)
>
> Lots on your plate, but I'm glad to know its on your to-do list
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John roper
President and CEO of Starlight Graphics Studio
Boston, MA USA
http://starlightgraphics.tuxfamily.org
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