> > A nice green area with the sub-liminal LyX-logo designed to affect the True
Self
> > of the viewer is better than ugly applications at the sides
>
> OK, I admit I hadn't thought about that point. Maybe you could add a
>
> <font size=subliminial>Send checks or money orders to LyX c/o Lars...</font>
>
> to the background?
Didn't you see it already? Maybe I should change the address...
> I really don't think a page full of text is cluttered. Lots of pictures is
> cluttered. Blink tags make even a 90% empty page seem cluttered. But I've
> been reading pages full of text "for, well, since long before you were
> born." (Sorry, Star Wars mania got me for a moment. Saw the prequel
> trailer on TV last night. I have GOT to get one of those 2-sided
> light-sabers. Anyway, I wasn't born very long before you were born.)
I think you misunderstod me: Assume that the text will get the entire width of
the browser. Then, you will be happy because you don't have to scroll as much.
On the other hand, I won't be happy, because long lines are harder to read.
Therefor, I have to resize my window to read it.
A side-effect of that will be that more of my other ugly applications will show
on the screen.
So, because you don't want to press space (or whatever you use to scroll), I
have to move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse, carefully find the border
of my browser-window, and then drag that to get the size I want. Then, I have
to move my hand back to the keyboard, and finally I can use space to scroll it
(the amount of scrolling is not reduced for me, but that's no problem).
And in addition, it's at the cost of a beautiful application of subliminial
messages?
Web-pages are meant to be appetizing, and at the same time useful. So far, you
have not convinced me that a side-nav-bar is less useful compared to a
top-nav-bar.
Remember that we are talking about the LyX web-site. It's not exactly a place
you hang out 7 hours each day. Therefor, the appetizing aspect is relatively
important, IMO. If a web-site looks good, there is a chance that the
application will too.
Regarding if Lynx can see the page, of course it will.
Regarding use of tables for layout-purposes: As long as we want support for
text-mode browsers like Lynx and old browser like Netscape 3, unfortunately
there is no other alternative, less than dropping layout.
In essense, it seems like you want the web-pages to look like the gnu
web-pages. Happy as I am about the gnu software, I don't think those pages are
sexy.
Greets,
Asger
