Channain
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« on: July 25, 2007, 09:47:34 AM » |
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Can I offer a critique for the new stretched/wide screen format?
When I went through Typography at school, one of the things that stuck with me the hardest is that most people have a hard time reading extraordinarily long lines of text. This is why magazines are formated in two columns or more, and why books are formatted to only a certain width - and have been for centuries now.
With the type formats that are offered in the SC templates, reading can be challenging enough. With longer lines of text, that situation is not going to improve.
Which means I'll be keeping my browser windows small to make reading quicker and easier.
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Shanna
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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2007, 09:57:24 AM » |
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I think I'll be downsizing the browser as well.
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The Founder
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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2007, 10:20:45 AM » |
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are you talking about the changes to the home page of the story or some other?
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Syndra
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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2007, 10:50:12 AM » |
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Now everything seems to be narrowed up to the left, theme depending!
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Lex
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« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2007, 10:52:21 AM » |
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The issue I have been having, as well as some others, is that the indiviual story threads are now all squooshed to the left. About 10 minutes ago it was really compressed, now it's not as bad, but still compressed, filling only about half the screen instead of the entire screen.
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Channain
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« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2007, 10:53:15 AM » |
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are you talking about the changes to the home page of the story or some other? The home pages and the internal threads - I'm not in many RPs myself, but it happened in every one that I'm in. Changes have been made, but I think it went a tad too extreme in the other direction. I don't really rememeber the threads being THAT narrow. I'm wracking my brain trying to remember what the ideal screen width is for web sites... Fundamentals of Interactive Media was awhile ago, and I haven't been doing web design since last November. That's one of those muscles that needs constant use. Regardless, SC probably needs wider than the standard to accommodate Avatars and such anyway. Just not the ENTIRE screen. |
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« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2007, 10:54:17 AM » |
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Now everything seems to be narrowed up to the left, theme depending! I'm sensing some triangulating going on: Nope, too narrow. Woop - too wide. Eh... almost. Oh, I'm also looking at it in dreaded IE on a PC. Tonight, when I'm on Firefox on a Mac it might be a whole different story. Wouldn't it be nice if all the browsers had the same parameters at least? They can have all the nifty features they want, but a couple universal rules would be nice. No sense asking for the moon. |
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« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2007, 10:55:36 AM » |
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So is it too narrow for anyone else? Cause first it was too wide, so maybe I over corrected but hopefully it is somewhat better.
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Shanna
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« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2007, 10:57:05 AM » |
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I'd rather have it squooshed than too wide!  Seriously - as long as it isn't thumb-thin.... |
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« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2007, 10:58:08 AM » |
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I would have to agree with Shanna - if our choices are slightly squooshed or infinity, I'll take squooshed.
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« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2007, 11:00:38 AM » |
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It's a bit squished, but livable. |
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« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2007, 11:05:04 AM » |
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Allocated an additional 5% of screen estate to posting column.
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Lex
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« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2007, 11:09:34 AM » |
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It's still looks more squoosed than say, yesterday, but it is certainly better than the thumb width is was earlier. I'm in agreement with Channain, Shanna, and others. Better smaller, than too large.
I'm still showing a sizable gap of 'dead' space to the right of the text, but I can live with that.
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Shanna
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« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2007, 11:32:38 AM » |
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This is starting to feel like one of my college math classes... :)
Too far! Too far on the other side!
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« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2009, 11:31:32 AM » |
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-drops a penny- From this height, it could probably do some damage...
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