ruby talk
2/17/2005 2:49:00 PM
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:37:14 +0900, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> wrote:
> Quoteing rff_rff@remove-yahoo.it, on Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:34:49PM +0900:
> > James Britt ha scritto:
> >
> >
> >
> > >Each box shows resources culled from links posted to del.icio.us.
> > >Clicking the resource name just loads that page. Clicking the little
> > >'i' next to a resource shows you what people have posted it and their
> > >extended comments. A modern browser is required. Haven't tested in
> > >older browsers (or even many current ones), so field reports are welcome
> > >so that it degrades nicely
> >
> > (my two cents)
> > the [i] button is interesting, but It is not that obvious to me what it
> > does, I wonder if there is a way of making it more clear :/
>
> I didn't know that it did anything, and when I pressed it, i don't know
> what I'm looking at... My vote - nuke it.
The intent is to provide a way to give more information about any
particular resource to see if it is worth pursuing so that a user does
not have to load each remote page to see what it is about. Whether
or nor this particular implementation serves that goal is another
matter.
>
> I like the overall layout a lot more. The stuff I want is more
> prominent, suggestions:
>
> RAA and rubyforge should be on top bar
I don't see how they are immediately relevant to Ruby documentation or the RDP.
>
> nuke the ads, why do we need ads on ruby-lang.org?
Money.
>
> at bottom of page, add the "news" section that is now the core
> of ruby-lang.org's page
There is so little news that it isn't worth featuring on the main page
anymore. People interested in news from the site would do far better
to get it from an RSS feed.
>
> all the more... buttons end in an internal error, intended?
See my previous posting where I say that most links do not work
(unless you're talking about JavaScript or WEBrick errors). Most of
those will behave as they do on the current ruby-doc site.
> Cheers,
> Sam
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