Usability and visual issues with prototype.php.net

From: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:56:05 +0000
Subject: Usability and visual issues with prototype.php.net
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I have discovered some usability and visual issues with the prototype website (http://prototype.php.net). Full explanation and proposed fixes with patch are in the bug report (https://bugs.php.net/id/61174). The issues without details are included below: 1. The documentation left-sidebar steals the attention. 2. Section headers and parameter items have the wrong visual priority. 3. Main navigation should go over the rest of the page instead of pushing the rest of the page down. 4. User-contributed notes are difficult to read because of background. 5. Documentation sidebar spacing is inconsistent. 6. Border-radius inconsistency. 7. Borders on method synopsis and code examples are inconsistent 8. Too much vertical padding on the section boxes. 9. The parameters in method synopsis are clickable but it is not visually expressed. 10. The bar between user contributed notes and the documentation doesn't match the page. You can see high-resolution screen-shots for my proposed changes and how it currently looks at http://imgur.com/a/t6gz4 Levi Morrison

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