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Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 4
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Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:47:22 GMT
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Hi Jason,

  
  1. The alternating background colours on the top stories links seems to just add clutter and detract from actualy reading the links. Is it really necessary?

I will try without them in #7.

  
  1. Having pre-existing text in search boxes. Uh, I hate that. :)

Normally, me too. And though it is against WCAG, I also will try without it in #7.

   Keep up the great work!

Thank you very much!

-Rene


Subject: 
Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 4
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Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:00:20 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
   Hi Jason,

  
  1. The alternating background colours on the top stories links seems to just add clutter and detract from actualy reading the links. Is it really necessary?

I will try without them in #7.

This could be something that is easily configurable by the user - so I would still keep the 2 different styles, but give them the same colour in the default page style.

ROSCO


Subject: 
Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 4
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Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:59:38 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
  
  
  1. Having pre-existing text in search boxes. Uh, I hate that. :)

Normally, me too. And though it is against WCAG, I also will try without it in #7.

Change


<label for="query">Search for: </label></span>
<input type="text" name="query" value="Search LUGNET" size="16"  maxlength="200" id="query" />


to


<label for="query" accesskey="s">Search for: </label></span>
<input type="text" name="query" value="Search LUGNET" size="16"  maxlength="200" id="query" onfocus="this.value = '';" onclick="this.value =  '';" />


The onclick/onfocus erase the text. The accesskey attribute lets people type ‘s’ to give the search box focus if they have accessibility issues. You might have to move the accesskey to the field itself; I don’t remember if putting it on a label still gives the field focus.


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