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Get rid of columns? #27

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tripu opened this issue Mar 8, 2018 · 5 comments
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Get rid of columns? #27

tripu opened this issue Mar 8, 2018 · 5 comments
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enhancement Something could be improved (as opposed to “doesn't work as it should”) mock-up-1 About our first iteration (released ~ 20 Mar 2018) question More a doubt than an issue or suggestion

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tripu commented Mar 8, 2018

And instead, organise fields of specs in a tabular way, in single rows.

/cc @bert-github.

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tripu commented Mar 8, 2018

This might work well on wide screens (when there's enough width for: title, type, tags, status — at least).

On smaller screens, we'd have to either truncate information heavily (bad idea) or change the display properties of certain elements so that they wrap and take their own new line, etc.

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columns are non-intuitive to me

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chaals commented Mar 18, 2018

@tripu said

On smaller screens, we'd have to either truncate information heavily (bad idea) or change the display properties of certain elements so that they wrap and take their own new line, etc.

Yeah, wrapping some is better than truncating... until you reach "TMI" and have to truncate some information.

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dret commented Mar 24, 2018

agreed that tables at some point become tricky. on the other hand, just displaying a bunch of blocks for everybody because on some displays tables are tricky is an odd way to approach design. for most people looking for constantly updated feeds of information, some form of list is by far the most useful, in particular if the info is uniform and i can quickly go through the list and compare dates, for example, and see which dates are the new ones. in the new block-based display, this is much harder to do.

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dret commented Mar 24, 2018

for context: until this week, https://www.w3.org/TR/tr-date-all used to be a simple and well-designed table view of recent publications, very easy to use and read. that has disappeared, and the URI now redirects to https://www.w3.org/TR/, which only shows a bunch of blocks that are much harder to read.

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