[Wikipedia-l] Proposal: new Cologne Blue final

[Neil Harris]

Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:

> At 03:34 PM 7/29/02 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This is my latest, and I hope final, mock-up  rendition of Cologne 
>> Blue that I  intend to offer to replace the existing implementation 
>> of Cologne Blue.
>>
>> I enclose a mock-up page: this represents the final look intended in 
>> standard-compliant CSS browsers like Mozilla and IE 6, but will 
>> probably not work properly in non-CSS-aware browsers yet. There's 
>> still lots to do, but the only way to find out is not to build a 
>> better mock-up, but to write the working code.
>
>
> I don't like using so much of the screen for editing-related stuff 
> before the reader gets to
> the content of the article. I'd take at least "special pages" to the 
> bottom or one side. Ideally,
> I'd have one row of links along the top, something like
>
> Find | Browse | Main page | Recent changes | Random page | Current 
> events | * Edit this page * |My settings
>
> and move the rest to the bottom or one side.
>
> (If I should have posted this earlier, I apologize.)
>
> For the record, I'm looking at things in Netscape 6, with CSS and Java 
> but not Javascript.
>
> -- 
> Vicki Rosenzweig
> vr at redbird.org
> http://www.redbird.org <http://www.redbird.org/>

Ah. That shouldn't happen in the finished version. I think you're seeing 
the alternate rendering: almost all the menus should appear at the left. 
I've sent you a screenshot of the intended rendering.

Neil