Peter Otten wrote: > Did you ever hit the "Socialize" button? Are you eager to see the latest > tweets when you are reading a PEP? Do you run away screaming from a page > where nothing moves without you hitting a button? Do you appreciate the > choice between ten or so links to the documentation?
I dislike the new design of python.org. The formatting of long text essays get completely mangled towards the bottom of the page, e.g.: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2/descrintro Many links are broken. When you click on the broken link, it says that it has been reported and will be fixed, but weeks later it remains broken, e.g.: https://www.python.org/doc/essays/metaclasses/Eiffel.py It requires Javascript or else basic functionality fails. With Javascript, basic functionality fails too, but in a much more entertaining and exciting way, as in "I'm trying to click a button on that menu, why does the screen keep refreshing and hiding the menu before I can click?". I'm not terribly impressed by the design or the colour scheme, it's way too "web 2.0", i.e. simultaneously pretentious and dumbed down. But most of all, I despise the menus that pop up covering what I am trying to read the page just because I happened to move the mouse over a button. I loathe the practice of stuffing content into menus instead of using links to individual web pages. And I hold nothing but scorn for the fact that the main page has a slideshow. But none of that even gets close to the spitting fury I feel when I see the "Socialise" links. With the possible exception of the link to http://irc.freenode.net/ which at least has the vague excuse that there is a #python channel, not that a visitor to the python.org website has any way to learn this. Oh, I've just discovered that when you click in the search box, a perfectly serviceable search box, it automatically expands by about 20%, just because. Urge to kill rising... > You can probably guess my opinion -- konqueror just crashed on the PEP > index and for some reason I'm more annoyed about the page than about the > browser. > > > PS: Is there a twitter.com something that I can block to trade black > friday and cyber monkey sales for a box with a good old error message? I love konquorer as a file manager, but I've come to the conclusion that Firefox is the absolute worst web browser available, except for all the rest. Firefox has a wonderful plugin, No Script, which lets you block Javascript and other nonsense on a per-site basis. I love me my No Script. Browsing the web is so painful without it. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
