I tried both the current site (http://www.openbsd.org) and the proposed
new site (http://greatest-ape.github.io/openbsd-site/openbsd/index.html)
using a variety of OpenBSD 5.8-stable web browsers, displaying on a
monitor with 96x97 pixels/inch. Sometimes one wants to have GUI web
browsers share screen space with other stuff, so I tried both "wide"
windows (> 1000 pixels width on my monitor) and narrower ones (down to
600 pixels or so).
Below I give a table with details of what I found. To summarize:
* Both sites look ok with lynx running in an xterm. This held true
for a variety of xterm widths.
* For windows >= about 850 pixels wide, the current site looks great
on every GUI browser I tried. For narrower windows the main text
didn't flow, but rather required horizontal scrolling to read each
line.
* The new site looks pale and washed-out in every GUI browser I tried,
as if the monitor isn't delivering proper color saturation.
* The new site doesn't handle narrow windows well -- below about 800
pixels width the main text is moved down to below the left menubar,
resulting (for typical window heights) in the main text being invisible
unless/until the user scrolls down.
* The new site renders particularly poorly in netsurf and dillo, with
the logo misplaced (netsurf) or missing altogether (dillo), and wide
windows having the same graphical problems as narrow windows.
Overall I strongly prefer the current site.
Details:
existing site proposed new site
----------------- -------------------------
window width wide narrow wide narrow
firefox great mediocre (2) mediocre (3) poor (3,4)
arora great mediocre (2) medoocre (3) poor (3,4)
midori great mediocre (2) mediocre (3) poor (3,4)
xombrero great mediocre (2) mediocre (3) poor (3,4)
netsurf great mediocre (2) poor (3,5) poor (3,4)
dillo great mediocre (2) poor (3,6) poor (3,6)
lynx ok ok ok ok
Notes:
(1) "Wide" windows are about 1000 pixels wide.
(2) For windows less than around 850 pixels wide, text is chopped off
at the beginning/end of each line, and a horizontal scroll bar or
left/right arrow keys must be used to go back and forth to read
each line of text.
(3) The new site looks pale and washed-out (as if the monitor isn't
delivering proper color saturation), but it's readable.
(4) For windows less than about 800 to 810 pixels wide, the main text is
moved down to below the left sidebar, so it's not visible at all without
scrolling down.
(5) Logo is misplaced, left menubar is moved down to below the logo, and
all the main text after the first sentence is moved down to below the
menubar.
(6) There's no logo (only the text description of it, despite this being
a GUI X-windows browser). All the main text after the first sentence
is moved down to below the menubar.
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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]"
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Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable
that they watched everybody all the time." -- George Orwell, "1984"
