Bug#290187: www.debian.org: packages.debian.org recently got uglier in non-CSS browsers
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:42:02PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:23:48AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > What do you think about something like
> > http://packages.debian.net/unstable/graphics/scribus ? I replaced the
> > [dep] string with the image and put the [dep] into the alt attribute.
> > It doesn't look really nice because of the linebreak after the image
> > but I only can change that with CSS.
>
> Please note also that the new layout is less Lynx-friendly because it
> adds vertical space. Entries are now in the form:
> <ol>
> <li>[dep] <dl><dt>package name</dt><dd>package description</dd></dl></li>
> ...
> </ol>
> It may be replaced by
> <dl>
> <dt>[dep] package name</dt><dd>package description</dd>
> ...
> </dl>
> where [dep] is rendered like now by an alt attribute or hidecss.
Ok, I can try that
> This also applies for the download table, it is much longer than before
Huh? The download table is the only that that didn't change at all...
So how did it get much longer than before? (Aside from the fact that
this is a pure lynx bug, all other text browser render the table
sufficiently)
> and is pretty annoying. In order to be usable, rows and cols have to
> be swapped, i.e. display would look like
> Arch List of files Size Installed size
> alpha [list of files] 200 500
> arm [list of files] 200 500
> ...
Yeah, Jutta proposed that, too.
> It is then readable with Lynx, but looks surely ugly with graphical
> browsers, so you may be reluctant to perform such a change. In this
> case, please at least move this table below
> Search for other versions of <package>
> so that we do not have to scroll down to read useful information, or
> move it to a dedicated 'download' page.
I'm still unsure which of these to implement, will do some more tests.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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