Klaim - Joël Lamotte wrote
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Robert Ramey <
ramey@
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ps. Robert must have put some crafty code into the website - right now it manages to reliably blow out my Firefox (-;
Hmmm - I just went through it with firefox (on my MAC) and didn't find any problems.
Note that there is a section "About" where you can post suggestions regarding the website itself. crashing firefox would be interesting to know.
By the way there is indeed a lot of problems from my pov and I was thinking (by experience) that if you want this kind of website/application, you probably want to stay away from wordpress... but then you'll have to develop a bit. Certainly worth it but I can't help with that so I understand the Wordpress choice (even if I think in the end it will be more time burnt than help).
I touched upon alternatives in the "About" section of the website. Short version - I tried a bunch of them. Note: Not just considered or reviews - actually tried them. Nothing came close to wordpress in being able to produce what I wanted with the effort I had available. Basically I managed to get everything I wanted with 1000 lines of code. I don't believe any of the alternatives could have done that. As for being "messy" - they all are based in a similar combination of the tools mentioned above. Bottom line I just don't think any of the other alternatives would have come close to this.
A few issues I saw yesterday (using Chrome): - it's not clear where I should report, the "contact the author" have no link;
- the library list by category is empty for me (I see a page with header and all the theme but no content);
I added the "About this website" to explain the above. It has also a place for comments and discussion. My intent was that this be a place for gathering this type of feed back.
- if I click on a library name in the alphabetical library list, I end up in a "Library Submission" page which have all the fields pre-filled with the library information but still modifiable. It is not clear to me if this is a voluntary hack to display these info without having to implement another page or if it is just a bug and it should have been another page. In any way; the "Library Submission" title and the writable fields makes it seems buggy.
It's a deliberate choice to reuse code and forms. The form is updateable by the author and read only for everyone else. This saved considerable code and I would be loath to change it. But I'm willing to entertain suggestions to make the intent more obvious and make it seem less buggy.
- having the front page text stretch all the width of the screen makes it very hard to read, both because it makes too long lines and because there is no space between the left and right border and the text itself. This is against text ergonomic "rules" and I should point that even scientific studies seem to suggest that too long lines makes it hard to read.
This is my personal preference. Personally it drives me crazy to have he web pages not fit on browser window. This way I can just adjust the window to the size and shape I like and the text is (almost) layer out perfectly. Just in case, I don't believe that asking the user to change his window's size to read that particular website is reasonable.
By the way this problem is also apparent in a lot of Boost libraries documentation and I do still have a hard time with reading most boost doc because of this.
again - I love the way the boost documentation adjusts to the current window size. I think ALL web pages should work this way. I just don't see anyway to reconcile these points of view.
In any way, thanks for the hard work; I know it's not easy to setup this kind of tool correctly.
LOL - I'm going to ignore the implication that it's currently setup incorrectly. Thanks for taking the time to comment on this. Robert Ramey _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Boost-Library-Incubator-recommended-by-st... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.