- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:34:35 -0400
- To: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Hi, Lea– Rossen has already changed the diagrams to represent the text using lines [1] (as indeed I'd had in an earlier version of the diagrams). I know the technique you're talking about, and I use it many other places [2], but I was trying to experiment a little in these diagrams, as I thought it could be clever to use real "blank text" as the placeholder in a CSS spec. [1] http://drafts.csswg.org/css-break/#varying-size-boxes [2] http://www.w3.org/annotation/diagrams/annotation-architecture.svg Regards– –Doug On 7/19/15 7:22 AM, Lea Verou wrote: > >> On Mar 8, 2015, at 11:09, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: >> >> Hey, Fantasai, Rossen– >> >> I don't actually hate the ASCII-art diagrams, but I do like writing >> SVG by hand, so here are a couple reproductions of your diagrams in >> SVG format. >> >> I tried to be faithful to the original ASCII-art diagrams, but >> there were a few points that confused me. >> >> In particular, I'm not actually sure what the second diagram is >> showing. Also, I think that the "second page" on the first diagram >> should have a bottom border, because otherwise it distracts from >> the point. >> >> If you'll help explain the diagrams to me, I can improve them, and >> can also include a text description inline in the SVG itself. >> >> Also, the colors I used are sub-optimal, so if there are any >> designers who can help me make them a bit more palette-able, I'd >> appreciate it. They are just styled with CSS, so changing them is >> simple. > > Thanks Doug!! > > If I may make a small suggestion, often text in such diagrams is > rendered as variable length thick gray lines instead of a series of > squares (which could look like characters are not rendering). E.g. if > you search Google Images for “Document template icons” (which is a > common use case for zoomed out random text) [1], you will see that > they either use horizontal lines or real dummy text. Same if you open > any document in InDesign and zoom out. > > [1]: > https://www.google.com/search?q=document+template+icons&tbm=isch >
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