Re: Usability and visual issues with prototype.php.net
| From: | Stewart Lord | Date: | Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:40:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Usability and visual issues with prototype.php.net | ||
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Hannes, what do you think about giving Levi access to do some work on the prototype?
On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Levi Morrison wrote:
> Stew,
>
> I would appreciate the karma. I imagine there are a lot of things I
> could improve. I'd like to know how communication on the project is
> currently being done. I used php-webmasters as a starting point
> because I knew it would get to where it needs to go. I already have
> documentation karma, in case it matters to anyone.
>
> Levi Morrison
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote:
>> Hi Levi, thanks for the feedback. We're looking for people to drive the prototype to
>> completion. I was previously working on it, but have been too busy to contribute lately.
>>
>> If you were keen, I imagine we could get you karma to commit changes directly.
>>
>> Stew
>>
>>
>> On 2012-02-23, at 2:56 PM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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