Hi all, On 07.11.19 20:21, Birger Schacht wrote: > * one thing that bothers me on a lot (but that hasn't even to do > directly with the new design, it also occurs on other Debian website) > are the margins and paddings of the main elements. This is somehow part > of the design specification thats documentend on > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWebdesign. The #header has a padding on > the left of 52px to make place for the Debian logo and 10px on the > right. The main elements below follow these settings by using margins of > 10 and 52 pixels. I think this makes the whole page look a bit askew, > because there is now a big gap on the left and a small gap on the right > of the content. I actually don't get why there even has to be a margin > at all- I think the website would look a lot cleaner by removing the > margins alltogether (that would mean making the padding in line 96 of > debian.css only on the left side and removing the margins of #content in > debian.css:84 and of #footer in debian.css:516). Yes, you'll notice immediately if you turn a mobile device into landscape mode. This looks weird. > * hover animation: to me the text-transformation when hovering the > headers feels unsettling. When I move the mouse from one column to the > other, suddenly the column where I came from moves and pulls my eyes > back. Also changes in size have sideeffects (not only the already > reported bug that the horizontal scrollbar appears, but also the > vertical scrollbar changes the scrollbar size, because the website gains > height). And its an effect that only works on devices where you can > hover over elements, which isn't possible on most devices nowadays, > because they have touchscreens. (I think the website looks really good > on mobile btw!) > > * hover animation2: when hovering over the icons in the two columns, the > text on the right of the icons moves. I'm not exactly sure, but I think > this is because they inherit a grey border from .column and in > .colum:hover that border gets then removed, which makes the icon element > a bit smaller and thus changes the position of the text. (I'm actually > not sure about the .column:hover effects). Please simply do away with ALL animations. They suck CPU power and look gross / strange! I don't think we need such eye-candy without any UX improvements. Instead underline HTML links (or don't), no animation needed for that, either. My 2 cents Michael
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