On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:44:46 -0800 (PST), Gerd Neugebauer
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ge...@gerd-neugebauer.de> wrote:
>On Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:42:02 AM UTC+1, Lars Madsen wrote:
>> On 12/13/2012 12:15 AM, Dan wrote:
>> > On Dec 12, 3:24 am, CTAN Announcements <
ctan-...@dante.de> wrote:
>> >> The CTAN Team is proud to announce the relaunch of the CTAN Web site
>> >>
>> >>
http://www.ctan.org/
>>
>> >> The new site provides the information and functions of the old site in
>> >> a new look&feel.
>>
>> > I actually got to see a preliminary version some months ago. Glad to
>> > see some minor problems corrected. Nice look. But I am not a fan of
>> > the 3D mouse-over effect on buttons. A bit too "look-at-me" for my
>> > taste.
>> >
>> > Dan
>>
>> me too, that is not nice. Color change is fine, but they should not move.
>>
>> I guess it is a missing css setting, a border that need a default value
>
>Your guess is wrong. The movement has been built in conciously by me.
Then at least it shouldn't cause the _rest_ of the page to
move. This is the effect I see when mousing over the [Search]
button on the search page (in both my browsers; this also
happens on the home page, but only in one of them). Lars may
be right: perhaps the css doesn't take into account that the
button takes up more space in its 3d version.
I might add that the text "Options" on the search page is
kind of weird. It doesn't appear clickable (the mouse
pointer becomes a text cursor and there is no color change).
And on first entering the page there is an [X] next to it
that has no effect when clicked except it changes to a
\triangledown. Clicking the triangle has no effect. Only
optimistically clicking on the word "Options" itself
produces a checklist.
>
>If you don't like it you can choose another skin. I propose you try "plain".
>This should not disturb you with any fancy effects;-)
Ah, now I see that you have hidden a "Settings" link up
behind the lion. This seems a too inconspicuous place to
put it. The usual way to read a page is to start at the
title and scan downward. I missed it completely.
Actually the plain skin is not too bad, but that may be
too much of a change. We mostly just don't want our text
jumping around.
One advantage of plain is that the "Settings" and "Help"
links are a little more obvious, being set off in a bar
along the top of the page along with other buttons.
Dan
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