• Re: Please critique the new online version of the Telecom Digest [telec

    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to Dave Garland on Thu Oct 13 02:10:46 2022
    On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 09:21:13PM -0500, Dave Garland wrote:
    Bill Horne wrote:

    I'm puzzled by your comment about the masthead: I would have
    thought it was "too big" if compared to the individual messages, so
    please tell us more about which part of it is out-of-proportion:
    the Table of Contents? The top-of-page banner and images?

    All. In portrait, the entire masthead, ToC, banner, images is 25mm
    wide and microscopic (60mm screen width). Vivaldi on a Pixel, Android
    10. Landscape, it's 57mm (100mm screen width) and readable. Messages
    display as full screen width either way.

    The duckduckgo browser seems to render everything in proportions like
    my desk computer. Portrait is ok but everything too small to read,
    landscape is decent.

    Firefox Focus seems to take me via DDG (not sure why), and omits the
    masthead completely.

    On desktop, screen res 1344x840, Brave, Opera, Firefox, Pale Moon and
    Chrome all render ok & about the same.

    I'm going to ask that you take pictures of the Pixel screen, with
    various parts of the Telecom DIgest page visible, so that we can get a
    better understanding of the situation. I'll publish the images at
    the T-D website.

    I'll also ask that anyone with web design expertise volunteer their
    services to help with these goals:

    1. Adjust page width and height and proportions to more clearly show
    the online copy of the Digest when users visit it, depending on the
    screen resolution available to each viewer.

    2. Find the best compromise between the current text layout, which is
    simply a copy of the line lengths shown in each individual TD post,
    and HTML, css, or other options to automatically improve on it.

    3. Automate the "markup" of each day's online digest version, by using
    a copy of the daily digest and tools such as sed or awk.

    Thanks for any help you have time to provide: I hope we'll get a
    better publication and make daily tasks easier by working together.

    Bill Horne

    P.S. The latest example of the online digest is at http://telecomdigest.net/rsi/latest-issue.html

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  • From Dave Garland@21:1/5 to Bill Horne on Mon Oct 10 21:21:13 2022
    Bill Horne wrote:

    I'm puzzled by your comment about the masthead: I would have
    thought it was "too big" if compared to the individual messages, so
    please tell us more about which part of it is out-of-proportion:
    the Table of Contents? The top-of-page banner and images?

    All. In portrait, the entire masthead, ToC, banner, images is 25mm
    wide and microscopic (60mm screen width). Vivaldi on a Pixel, Android
    10. Landscape, it's 57mm (100mm screen width) and readable. Messages
    display as full screen width either way.

    The duckduckgo browser seems to render everything in proportions like
    my desk computer. Portrait is ok but everything too small to read,
    landscape is decent.

    Firefox Focus seems to take me via DDG (not sure why), and omits the
    masthead completely.

    On desktop, screen res 1344x840, Brave, Opera, Firefox, Pale Moon and
    Chrome all render ok & about the same.

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