Re: The Battle of the Browsers

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 14:34:56 -0600, dorayme wrote (in article 
<doraymeRidThis-26CF7E.07345603122006@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>): 

> In article <0001HW.C196AA3C00318693B019F94F@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
> 
>> As a followup to the many kind and thoughtful comments regarding my
Ansel 
>> Adams website at <http://homepage.mac.com/taliesinsoft/Adams>
I have
made 
>> a number of changes. 
>> 
>> As things now stand the site displays as intended in Safari, Firefox, 
>> Camino, and Opera, and displays with a minor glitch in iCab. 
>> 
>> Comments will still be appreciated. 
> 
> . 
> 
> First, let me say it looks nicer now (simpler, no pesky blue borders or 
> glows) and more inviting without the music bar. That is on Safari. 
> 
> OK, in addition to previous comments about eliminating the pop ups, I
will 
> add this reason: it is a nuisance having to remove or move or click away

> from it to get back to the thumbnails. Compare with a situation where it

> is a simple link from the thumb to the enlargement and occurs _According

> to the users preferences_ (there are different ways, sometimes opening
in 
> same window, sometimes in new window, sometimes in new tabs). All of
these 
> ways prima facie are superior to the pop up because they are the users 
> preferences. And now, more than just prima facie, they enable all the 
> normal controls that are built into the browser to navigate. Your pop up

> technology overrides this stuff at the cost of usuability. Give you one 
> example: I would normally command curly bracket in Safari or iCab to get

> back to the thumbs if the thumbs were a simple link. I find myself 
> disappointed that I cannot and have to fiddle about with your pop ups. 
> 
> I will also give you another reason: with a site like yours, I would
love 
> to be able to open the enlargements into different tabs. Having many 
> enlargements there in tabs for my perusal, for comparison. Your popups 
> block the simple way to do this given my settings, I cannot command
click 
> the links and it happens. 
> 
> Consider again losing these things. Sometimes they have a purpose. I use

> them (though less and less these days) on some commercial sites to put
up 
> fairly small windows so people can see materials, close up of weaves,
some 
> small details, while still seeing the main page. In your case it is not 
> appropriate because the enlargements by their very nature are big! 
> 
> Consider these things TaliesinSoft. 
> 
> And good luck! 

Take another look at <http://homepage.mac.com/taliesinsoft/Adams/>.

A simple click in the thumbnails view will change that view in the same 
window to the large view.

A command click in the thumbnails view will open the large view in a new 
tabbed window.

-- 
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]