On 10/1/2022 2:46 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
The "online" version of the Telecom Digest is now ready for Beta
test, and I need your help.
The new version is at https://telecomdigest.net/rsi/latest-issue.html . Please let me know what your opinions are concerning the web-based
version, and answer these questions for me:
1. Is it readable on your device, and if not, why not?
Looks fine to me, and normally I hate white on black. Maybe having the
font large enough makes the difference. I've got old eyes too.
(Running Pale Moon browser, which at the moment is sending a UserAgent
claiming it's Safari on a Mac.) It also works with Brave and Opera,
and doesn't care if I'm in AK or on VPN from the Netherlands. Using
Vivaldi on my Android phone, the messages read fine but the masthead
stuff is too tiny to read without significantly expanding the view
(then, of course, the messages are too big to read without much
scrolling). (I think there's a way for you to detect screen size and
adjust the size of the masthead accordingly. But I don't know how
myself.)
2. Does it present a professional appearance? In other words, does
it look good?
It looks fine. It does not look contemporary (i.e. frames, graphics,
videos, and a gigabyte of Javascript). So it does look old-fashioned.
Yeah, a little Geocities, except no "blink" or "marquee" tags. But it
works. And LOADS INSTANTANEOUSLY!!!! I had forgotten what that was
like, in this CSS-choked Javascript hobbled world, even though I've
got a 500M connection.
3. What would you change if you could? Why?
I think it's great. Fast loading, no autoplay videos, what more could
one ask? But maybe not enough eye candy for today's yoof.
Dave
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Thanks for taking time to send in your ideas, Dave: I appreciate them.
I'm puzzled by your comment about the masthead: I would have thought
it was "too big" if compared to the individual messages, so please
tell us more about which part of it is out-of-proportion: the Table of Contents? The top-of-page banner and images?
As to capturing screen size, that's a good idea: with so many tiny
mobile devices and so few 80x40 green-screens from the days of my
youth, I'm willing to adapt a little bit (kicking and screaming, of
course ...), but I'll need some help from those whom didn't learn HTML
by way of the IBM Script manual I had to study to make use of the
"Laser" printer attached to the cms mainfrome we used with our 3278
tubes. Oh, and you mentioned something called "Javascript:" what's
that? ;-)
Again, my thanks: yours is EXACTLY the kind of feedback I need to make
this work.
Bill Horne
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