Re: Irresponsible actions

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 December 2004 14:53, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>> We all know that given another week or so the rest of the outstanding
>>>> bits should be fixed, and we'll have further feedback about
>>>> totally-unknown problems coming in too.
>>>
>>> The site looks great! Good job everyone.
>>
>> I noticed, that:
>>
>> 1. The site has no favicon and "SHORTCUT ICON". What's a reason to remove
>> them ?
>
> If there was a reason, it is because it was overlooked. However I am still
> getting the favicon... can someone else duplicate the problem?

megera(at)mira:~ $>curl -I http://www.postgresql.org/favicon.ico
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:39:54 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) PHP/4.3.9 mod_ssl/2.8.20 OpenSSL/0.9.7d
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

See, for example, http://techdocs.postgresql.org/.
Oh, guys, I see very funny page ! See screenshots:
http://mira.sai.msu.su/~megera/pgsql/www.postgresql.org.jpg
http://mira.sai.msu.su/~megera/pgsql/techdocs.jpg

>
>> 2. There are no margings or paddings when width of browser's
>> (firefox 1.0) window is < 765. This is very inconvenient.
>>
>
> I'll just say grrr a few times and mumble about fluid designs to myself...
> eventually this is going to have to be changed.
>

it could be improved rather easy and I already pointed to this problem,
but designers are very busy and not very responsive. I don't see any replies.
I'm not a big designer, but I don't believe current implementation is optimal and
maintainable:
7 (seven) .css files
megera(at)mira:~/WWW/pgsql/css $>ls -l
total 32
-rw-rw-r-- 1 megera netadm 592 Dec 23 03:51 fixed.css
-rw-rw-r-- 1 megera netadm 1023 Dec 23 03:51 global.css
-rw-rw-r-- 1 megera netadm 2511 Dec 23 03:51 iefixes.css
-rw-rw-r-- 1 megera netadm 7558 Dec 23 03:51 layout.css
-rw-rw-r-- 1 megera netadm 3189 Dec 23 03:51 navigation.css
-rw-rw-r-- 1 megera netadm 1901 Dec 23 03:51 table.css
-rw-rw-r-- 1 megera netadm 2359 Dec 23 03:51 text.css
megera(at)mira:~/WWW/pgsql/css $>cat *|wc
1145 2445 19133
megera(at)mira:~/WWW/pgsql/css $>du -s .
36 .

I think it's too much. Also, it's not optimized for people with
slow link - 37 http requests, it's not optimized for server -
29 images are served by rather slow http server which is
apache+php+mod_ssl. All binary objects should be served by small and light
server, this is a classic.

>

Regards,
Oleg
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