Re: [pygame] preview of new pygame website... HiFi part

[Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether.joe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Definitely higher tech. I personally like the green color scheme and
retro look of the current site as well :)

Can we keep the green?

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On sab, 2014-04-05 at 15:36 +0200, Renà Dudfield wrote:
>> here's a preview of the HiFi part of the new pygame website...
>>
>> http://pygame.org/hifi.html
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Looks really nice, but there are a few issues with it at the moment.
>
> Horizontal scrolling is rather unnatural and weird to navigate. If it
> were an unordered collection of elements designed to scroll through,
> then I would expect to be able to scroll naturally with the touchpad.
>         However, it appears to be grouped into distinct categories, which are
> meant to represent different parts of the site. In this case, I would
> expect it to paginate. Clicking the left/right arrow, or keyboard
> buttons would snap it over to the next category. Obviously, this would
> require the content to reflow, so the whole category fits onscreen, on
> my laptop I'm seeing 3.5/5 columns when looking at 'show'. Some of this
> could be compacted, for example using a more typically sized Twitter and
> Reddit stream, and then displaying one under the other.
>
>
> I also have no clue what the category names are supposed to mean.
>
> There is some issue where keyboard focus seems to get lost, and then
> left/right stops working. But, up/down continue to scroll as per normal
> browser scroll. Then, clicking on the page to regain keyboard control
> and pushing down causes the website to zoom back up to where it last has
> keyboard control.
>         In fact, just found an easy way to reproduce. Scroll down the page with
> the mouse wheel, then press down on the keyboard, and it zooms back up
> the page. (I'd suggest just leaving this up/down scrolling to the
> browser controls, I can imagine it causing accessibility problems if
> overridden.)
>
> Also, this is completely unusable on my phone.
>
> It's a good look, but needs a number of usability improvements.



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