Re: [LogiLogi-list] Working on GUI layout

> Hi all,
> 
> This is the temporal file where I'm working at
> http://overbits.com:3000/index_new_gui_1.html
> 
> Take a look at it and let me know how it behaves in different browsers.

Great! It works well in both Firefox and IE, and scaling is
wonderfull in both!

> The layout is made of a header, a body and a footer. The body has a
> table with 3cols. I'll try next to move from table to DIVs since I
> think it will work, but have to give some time to it and will do it
> tomorrow.

As said, I don't consider it paramount that we have a div-only layout.
It will be only in one or in a few files, so once CSS gets stable
enough that we can do what we want to do across browsers without
hacks, we can do it in less than an hour...

> I still will work on:
>  * Left and right menues
>  * Header requested/received urls
>  * LogisBox colors and elements (Wybo, let me know what will be in there)

A list of links, with logi's and their scores below each link.

>  * Font sizes in general. Now the sizes are the default ones.

Ok.

> I made some changes of layout to test how they worked, let me know
> what you think:
>  * changed the order of (nav_bar / url_bar / prefs_bar) TO (prefs_bar
> / url_bar / nav_bar) Also this test doesn't center them. The first
> problem I find is that the search box is lost up there and I don't
> like it. Obviously going back to the old layout is easy.

I had them in the previous order, because both the search-box and the
preferences-drop-down menu are something one will probably use quite
often, so they should be more near the center of the screen. Also note
that the preferences-drop-down-menu is meanth for switching prefs-
profiles quickly, not for going to different places for setting your
preferences.

Also the login fields likely will be added to the prefs_bar (and a
link to one's personal page & peergroup-page if logged in). So I think
the original order was a bit better.

A minor issue is that the nav_bar doesn't go all the way to the right
side of the screen.

And about yes or no centering them, I guess that's a matter of taste
and style, so we will try it now for a while your way.

>  * also, I'm changing the menues to lists, and also changing the
> previous "lines" to border of their UL or LI elements, but this is not
> yet implemented.

Note that the incoming-links, and context menu's will contain
unfoldable sub-menu's. Clicking on contenders, will fill that div
with the word contenders (link to close it again), and a list of
contenders. So don't turn it entirely into a list.

Also the main menu will contain the contents of the best rated 
LogiLogi/element/main_menu logi, so that one can't be a list 
either.

Only the elements menu can be a list.

> This is just a test. I've tested it in FF2.0 and IE6.0 and IE5.5 and
> if all went smoothly. I'd like to get feedback about other browsers
> please.

I don't have any other here, but except for IE7 I don't think for now
we really need any other browsers supported (though it would be nice
if they worked).

> There are still lot's of things to work at, but I'm sending this in
> order to get feedback.

Hereby, great so far!

I really hope we can show what we have so far to a wider audience
somewhere in the coming week. Yesterday evening I was at a Linux-
party here in London, and I showed Manta to some people, and they
were really enthausiastic. They even want to organize a LogiLogi-
day on the 28th of January (if we're done by then) on which people
will edit pages and discuss through LogiLogi. It would be great if 
we also organized such things in other places (I most likely will
in Groningen) so it could become really global.

Wybo

> Greeting you'all,
> 
> -- 
> Bruno