Hello John,
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:01:46 +0100
John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I wrote 1996 in the subject field because that was the
year I made a
wikisite with tabbed interface, and experimented with a paper-like
design in Xt. More or less what designers today would call a material
design. The present design is what I would call Monobook 2.0, and that
imply a 15 year old design. Monobook was rolled out in 2004-2005 if I
remember correctly.
In that case, it was flamebait and provocative.
At nowiki we had a discussion with a designer from The
Oslo School of
Architecture and Design around 2009, and he come up with a really nice
design. The design at SNL (the other Norwegian lexicon) starts to look
more and more like it. The design proposal was deemed to radical and
to simple for Wikipedia. He got several awards for the design.
No, I'm not a designer, but I do like good design.
Like I said, I do not find the current
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
design lacking, except for the fact it may not be mobile-friendly (or so called
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design ) enough, which is a
difficult problem to tackle.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:34 PM John Erling Blad
<jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you, but discussing how your site or any other specific site
> looked like in some year is an distraction.
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:30 PM Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi John!
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:47:21 +0100
> > John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin?
> > >
> > > Take a look at our Norwegian competitor in the lexicon field.
> > >
https://snl.no/kunstig_intelligens
> > >
> >
> > I took a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and it doesn't
> > look anything like a geocities/etc. site from the 90s, and I feel it
> > doesn't look bad.
> >
> > For the record that was my site at around 1998 -
> >
https://old-1998-site.shlomifish.org/ and people complained enough that my
> > current site looks like "[insert year here]" that I added a FAQ
entry:
> >
> >
https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/site_looks_old.xhtml
> >
> > See
https://everybootstrap.site/ for how many contemporary sites look
> > like.
> >
> > Someone on freenode told me he thinks plain black-on-white sites look
> > great.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi
> >
> > > John Erling Blad
> > > /jeblad
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> >
> > As it turns out, compiling a C program from more than 20 years ago is
> > actually a lot easier than getting a Rails app from last year to work.
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