[projectaon] Re: Illustrated single-page format?
- From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:17:49 +0100
On Thursday 25 November 2010, Jonathan Blake wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Ingo Kloecker
>
> <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 November 2010, Jonathan Blake wrote:
> >> I was thinking about listing it as:
> >>
> >> View standard · simple · simpler
> >
> > I'm not sure about "simple" and "simpler". Sure, the HTML is really
> > simple(r), but the one page editions are huge in terms of size of
> > the download for this single page. The illustrated version weighs
> > in at 5.2 MB. This could be rather surprising for somebody
> > expecting something simple. Also, it is probably not suitable for
> > people without an all- inclusive data traffic contract for their
> > mobile.
> >
> > I suggest something like "single page" and "single page illustrated
> > (5.2 MB)".
>
> That makes a lot of sense, though I think "simple" and "simpler" are
> good pithy descriptions. You got me thinking (yikes!) and I mocked up
> a radical departure from how we've formatted the pages before (now
> that I'm almost finished streamlining the pages according to the
> old-new format).
>
> http://www.projectaon.org/en/Jon/RuneWar
>
> What do you think?
I like it.
I'd probably flushleft the "view" header. Or simply leave it out
entirely.
I especially like the MiB and KiB. :-) Maybe you should link MiB to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte and KiB to ... Or maybe not.
Regards,
Ingo
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