On 1 November 2011 09:34, anonymous <p37sitdu_AT_lavabit.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:21:19PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
>> ... because it clashes with the developers' CSS. That's the problem. I
>> think there ought to be pure style-free semantic HTML, and then users
>> can style every site to fit their personal needs, without it resulting
>> in ugly.
>
> http://suckless.org/ is not style-free at all. Navigation is done using
> lists and there are divs with ids "container", "midHeader", "main-copy"
> and classes "left" and "right". If you disable CSS, all these lists
> can nearly fill entire screen and these divs are usless if you want to
> create your own style.
>
> IMO navigation lines on top should be done without lists like on
> http://cat-v.org/. Or, much better, navigation can be completely
> removed and replaced with simple links like on http://www.mutt.org/.
>
> Nice guidelines are already present on http://port70.net/webless/
Funny you mention this, actually this was a plan for quite some time
to tidy suckless.org up and to make its web interface clearer. And
nearly all your points will be used in the new design (though werc of
course will remain, but it's default style isn't great either ;))
Cheers,
Anselm
Received on Tue Nov 01 2011 - 11:38:23 CET