Re: [Chicken-users] Wiki design

[Arthur Maciel]

Dear Matt, I made some suggestions and they can be found at:

- https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/621606/chicken-wiki.tar.gz
- https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/621606/chicken-wiki2.tar.gz
- https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/621606/chicken-wiki3.tar.gz

They especially differ in respect to what happens to the search box when you shrink the browser window. They are just drafts and would need adjustments to fit all the wiki pages. Please don't blame me for the ugly code.

I believe Thomas was the last one to give an opinion about this design (sorry, Thomas, for not replying).

ATM I don't have time to play more with it. Feel free to improve it!

I'm not sure many chicken folks agree with the proposals.

Best wishes,
Arthur

---------- Mensagem encaminhada ----------
From: Matt Gushee <address@hidden>
To: chicken-users <address@hidden>
Cc: 
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:20:35 -0700
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Wiki design

 

Hello, Arthur and others--

So, what has happened with this? I was quiet on this subject
previously because I didn't have much to add, but I thought the
proposed design was a big improvement.

I'm writing today because, if anyone is still working on updating the
wiki, I have a feature request. Perhaps it's something I could
implement--though I haven't studied the code at all. But I thought
perhaps it was something that should be discussed a bit.

My proposal is, simply, to include a *mandatory* "last-updated" field
on every page.

I'm getting increasingly frustrated (and BTW, this is by no means
specific to Chicken Scheme--it's all over the flipping Internet) at
seeing technical and news articles whose relevance to current reality
cannot be determined because they are undated.

I suppose the theory is that, since it's a wiki, everyone will pitch
in to make sure the docs are always up to date. But it should be clear
by now that that doesn't always happen. If everything had a date on
it, then we would know to be skeptical of a 3-year-old document; or we
could reasonably assume that a 1-year-old page is more likely correct
than a 3-year-old one. And so on ...

PS: regarding the menu font--why not have a fallback[s]? If visitors
don't have Noto Sans, they may well have Ubuntu Sans; and if they're
using some weird OS and have neither, I'm sure comparable fonts can be
found for those other platforms? Or were you using @font-face?

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Arthur Maciel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear chickeneers, I promised and I failed: this *is* the last email about
> the wiki redesign (unless there is a major problem with it :)
>
> Following Thomas advice I changed default font to "sans-serif", leaving
> "Noto Sans" only for the menu and h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6. It is much more
> readable to me now.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/621606/chicken-wiki.tar.gz
>
> Best wishes,
> Arthur
>