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 realise that this design is not perfect, but it is probably nicer-looking than the existing implementation, and I'm reading the code for the new software to see how to make the changes in an evolutionary way will work with cross-browser support.
I'm also considering the idea of doing a version of this with tables alone for old browsers that ignore or munge CSS. If I do the CSS right, the CSS version should work OK for browsers like Lynx.
Can anyone help me with how to go about contributing code, and where and how to test it? The first thing I'll need to do is just to clone an existing style, and call it something like "Cologne Beta", prior to changing it step-wise into real code.
Once I have something up and running, then we can start voting for features. As all code will of course be GPL, if you dislike it enough, you'll be able to change it yourself.
Regards,
Neil
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 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@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
Neil Harris wrote:
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.
Can anyone help me with how to go about contributing code, and where and how to test it? The first thing I'll need to do is just to clone an existing style, and call it something like "Cologne Beta", prior to changing it step-wise into real code. Neil
It looks better already. You might even get some of us Luddites to change over. The serifed type face is indeed easier to read.
In view of the page you used for a sample, the name "Cologne Enlightened" has a ring to it. :-))
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