Re: Prettier Perl websites

in reply to Prettier Perl websites

I like the idea of making perl websites prettier (for example http://perl.org/ looks rather old-fashioned), but most of all they should be usable.

While I do appreciate your effort, I don't think that the way to go are animations that stop and reset as soon as the mouse leaves the area. It's not what I call usable. (When the animation isn't fast enough for me, I scroll a bit down to see what else is on the page, and immediately regret it as it is now).

<general_rant>IMHO far too many designers (and programmers) sacrifice usability for fancy designs and animations. I believe that it's not impossible to have a site that's both usable and fancy, and so I post variations of this rant in every place where somebody might care </general_rant>

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Re^2: Prettier Perl websites by sri (Vicar) on Nov 03, 2008 at 15:03 UTC
The animations are just a few seconds long, do you think it's worth using flash just so you can seek and pause? Until we have HTML5 and the `<video>` tag, gif animations are the right choice for this specific problem imo.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Prettier Perl websites by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 03, 2008 at 15:05 UTC
You can use plain HTML + optional javascript. You can just provide a log of the session, and if javascript is enabled, turn that into an animation. If not, it stays normal text. Readable and copy&paste-able. (update: my first formulation was harsher than intended. I meant no offense, and made it constructive now...)	[reply]
Re^4: Prettier Perl websites by sri (Vicar) on Nov 03, 2008 at 18:05 UTC
Well, cross-browser JavaScript animations are still very tricky, i'm open for suggestions though.	[reply]
Re^5: Prettier Perl websites by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Nov 03, 2008 at 19:03 UTC
Re^6: Prettier Perl websites by sri (Vicar) on Nov 03, 2008 at 21:40 UTC
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Re^3: Prettier Perl websites by Lawliet (Curate) on Nov 03, 2008 at 19:57 UTC
I find it extremely annoying to have to wait and watch the animation to see the command I need to type :\ I do realize that there may be documentation elsewhere and if that is true then is there even a need for the animations? The rest looks nice though. (",) I'm so adjective, I verb nouns! chomp; # nom nom nom	[reply]
Re^4: Prettier Perl websites by zby (Vicar) on Nov 04, 2008 at 09:06 UTC
There is a conflict between being persuasive and being actually convenient learning material.	[reply]

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