- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:20:42 +0900
- To: QA-dev Dev <public-qa-dev@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <90C7DF48-5F89-11D9-ACDC-000393A80896@w3.org>
FYI - having had no recent news from the small group of people who had proposed to help us with the graphic/visual design of our tools, I eventually took a day to take care of it myself, with, admittedly, probably not as good results as a real graphic designer would have given, but reasonable nonetheless. Current state visible at the usual: http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/ Rationale behind some of the choices: - block width: very long lines, permitted by our non-limited window width, are really hard to focus on. Books seldom go past 15 words per line, newspapers even less. Without going that far, I tried to limit the width of the window so that it doesn't go past 20 words in a reasonable font. - colors. Our current scheme isn't "ugly" but grey-white can be a bit bleak. Blue is the color generally associated with W3C, so blue. Blue is also, however, the usual color of links (I kept that, though still wondering about underlining them) so the headings (except the top title) can't share the same color. Frank reds and greens are out of the question - I like pink but I'm already working on a pink and blue site off work - so I chose a color that helped me win a bet with Karl :). - The little blue tab is a distinctive sign of our specs. We should use that - consistently - for tools related to our specs. The design is not fully decided yet and there are a few things to fix, but once this is done, and barring strong disagreement, I wish to use this as the default style for the markup, css validators and checklink starting at their next respective releases. Note that the changes so far are purely CSS. Time permitting, I aosl intend to have a look at information presentation and wordings. -- olivier
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