On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:01:51AM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
> - The URL is lost, so if I want to link to a screenshot, or mail my
> friend and say "Hey, look at this cool thing GIMP can do!", I
> can't. I have to write a description of which screenshot to
> click on after going to the main site.
Yes - thats one of the disadvantages of the javascript stuff.
The point is, we don't have a system which creates the pages
dynamically. With that, we could have implemented an imagebrowser in
'HTML mode' only.
The pages are static and the imagebox gives for a certain
amount of users a usable interface to view our screenshots and splash
screens.
What we can do to avoid the URL problem is to generate the URL to the
image and display it in the image browser. People can copy the link if
they want to send it to friends. Google maps does provides a similar
functionality.
Turning off Javascript could be an option, but I guess and
agree with Akkana here, that most users won't disable Javascript for
performance reasons. I don't think that they walk away and never come
back. Viewing screenshots and splash screens isn't the central point on
the gimp homepage. In my opinion, the current index page where you can
download the software with a click is more important.
> There are also issues with the current screenshot disappearing
> (I found that if I switched to another desktop, when I switched
> back the screenshot would often be gone or changed, but it wasn't
> consistent).
Hm.. don't have this problem. Does it still persist?
> There's also an issue with the layout and site navigation: at least on
> my machine, the screenshots page dims everything on the page except the
> screenshot, so the site navigation at the bottom of the page is
> nearly invisible. And there's no header on the page at all, so it
> doesn't look like it's part of the site except for the black background.
Do you mean the page or the imagebox dialog which contains the actual
screenshot?
> Speaking of layout, on the main page (not the screenshots page),
> what's up with all the blank space? There's content at the top of
> the page, then you scroll down down down down down past a lot of
> empty greyness, then finally at the bottom there are some nav
> links. Does the page have a fixed or minimum height set? Why?
Do you mean the index page? A bit of the gray emptyness will be filled
with news, which aren't published currently.
Greetings,
--
Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski@???
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