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Work on the w3.org/TR index page (not specs themselves)
https://www.w3.org/TR/
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Get rid of columns? #27

Open tripu opened 6 years ago

tripu commented 6 years ago

And instead, organise fields of specs in a tabular way, in single rows.

/cc @bert-github.

tripu commented 6 years ago

This might work well on wide screens (when there's enough width for: title, type, tags, status — at least).

On smaller screens, we'd have to either truncate information heavily (bad idea) or change the display properties of certain elements so that they wrap and take their own new line, etc.

wseltzer commented 6 years ago

columns are non-intuitive to me

chaals commented 6 years ago

@tripu said

On smaller screens, we'd have to either truncate information heavily (bad idea) or change the display properties of certain elements so that they wrap and take their own new line, etc.

Yeah, wrapping some is better than truncating... until you reach "TMI" and have to truncate some information.

dret commented 6 years ago

agreed that tables at some point become tricky. on the other hand, just displaying a bunch of blocks for everybody because on some displays tables are tricky is an odd way to approach design. for most people looking for constantly updated feeds of information, some form of list is by far the most useful, in particular if the info is uniform and i can quickly go through the list and compare dates, for example, and see which dates are the new ones. in the new block-based display, this is much harder to do.

dret commented 6 years ago

for context: until this week, https://www.w3.org/TR/tr-date-all used to be a simple and well-designed table view of recent publications, very easy to use and read. that has disappeared, and the URI now redirects to https://www.w3.org/TR/, which only shows a bunch of blocks that are much harder to read.