From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: Refresh of http://orgmode.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:45:21 -0700 Message-ID: <87liqfyou6.fsf@gmx.com> References: <87k461we9q.fsf@gnu.org> <20111213215015.GA53490@kenny.fritz.box> <877h20vtkd.fsf@gmx.com> <87d3br8o14.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35319) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rau1H-0005YF-64 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:57:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rau1E-00017v-BJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:57:35 -0500 Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com ([74.208.5.67]:51497) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rau1E-00017R-4Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:57:32 -0500 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bastien Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > >> +1 for preferring the old screenshot, for exactly those reasons >> mentioned above. While it is fun for me to look at random >> screenshots from Worg, part of the purpose of this site is as a >> gateway to Org-mode, and I fear many of these random screenshots are >> meaningless (or even intimidating) unless you already have a good >> understanding of Org-mode. > > Again, I agree. Patch welcome! > Ah, I should have known to hold my tongue! :) I pushed a patch up to a new "old-image" branch in the orgweb repository, but it seems you've now taken care of this independently so please feel free to delete that branch. > >>> - I don't like the fixed top bar with the Org-Mode motto and the random >>> quote. It takes up about 20% of vertical screen space of my laptop. A >>> complete waste in my view. The black background also does not cover >>> the text behind it -- one or two pixel of the text are visible above >>> the bar. >> >> I also find that (in part because of the new larger screenshots) I can't >> see any content upon first loading the page (see this screenshot [1]). > > Mh.. your screen seems quite small. If you can fix the .css to display > the website better on your screen, please do, I don't have time at hand > now to do it myself. > One of my preferred layout looks something like the following, which can lead to a small windows for Firefox. +----------------+---------------+ | | | | | | | Firefox | Emacs | | | | | | | +----------------+---------------+ | Terminal | +--------------------------------+ There is a huge difference in readability between those websites which take variable window size into consideration and those which assume a large screen (or a full screen browser). I'll take a shot at changing the CSS in the orgweb repository to facility smaller layouts (I guess some special CSS for mobile browsers may also make sense). ...looking... It looks like making the Org-mode website responsive to the viewers window size should be as simple as adding a couple of "@media" guards [1] to the css page. I may have time to tackle this over the weekend. I do need some help compiling the Org-mode web page from the git repository. Is there an org-mode publishing project which I should define locally? In general how are the many file in orgweb compiled into the site? Thanks, -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/ Footnotes: [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/