Back in February, I was playing around with the website appearance a bit. Today I happened upon that file again, and I still rather like the look of it. http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo2.html Any thoughts? PS I wonder about the anybrowser gif in the sidebar. It screams 1996 to me.
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:15:33AM +0000, corvid wrote:
Back in February, I was playing around with the website appearance a bit. Today I happened upon that file again, and I still rather like the look of it.
http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo2.html
Any thoughts?
IIRC your problem with the current color scheme was fuzzy contrast on your monitor. A technical issue, similar OTOH to high contrast headaches. AFAIR long ago people preferred the current scheme over presented alternatives, despite the low contrast issue being acknowledged. I assume a trade off for aesthetics. As aesthetics is a matter of personal taste, I've prepared a couple of alternatives with better contrast palette: http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo2.tmp1.html http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo2.tmp2.html I like both over "dillo2.html". I like tmp1 for its lively colors (though "waterish"), and also like tmp2 for its more integrated "airish" palette (a bit "serious" too).
PS I wonder about the anybrowser gif in the sidebar. It screams 1996 to me.
It can be replaced with something better. -- Cheers Jorge.-
Jorge wrote:
IIRC your problem with the current color scheme was fuzzy contrast on your monitor. A technical issue, similar OTOH to high contrast headaches.
Everything appears okay on my current one. The one that I had a few years ago had grown dim and reddish.
AFAIR long ago people preferred the current scheme over presented alternatives, despite the low contrast issue being acknowledged. I assume a trade off for aesthetics.
Part of it is that I would look around to see what people were saying about dillo, and there would be comments that the dillo developers must be colorblind. And part of it is that, after changing monitors, I particularly haven't liked the purple.
As aesthetics is a matter of personal taste, I've prepared a couple of alternatives with better contrast palette:
http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo2.tmp1.html http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo2.tmp2.html
I like both over "dillo2.html".
I like tmp1 for its lively colors (though "waterish"), and also like tmp2 for its more integrated "airish" palette (a bit "serious" too).
I looked around the web a little bit at the time with firefox to see what the style of the day is, and there seemed to be a lot of whites and pale grays and pale blues.
PS I wonder about the anybrowser gif in the sidebar. It screams 1996 to me.
It can be replaced with something better.
Let's see... A couple that appeal to me are: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/bvgraphics/anyb02.png http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/bvgraphics/abblue.gif
corvid (2012-10-10 16:49):
Jorge wrote:
IIRC your problem with the current color scheme was fuzzy contrast on your monitor. A technical issue, similar OTOH to high contrast headaches.
Everything appears okay on my current one. The one that I had a few years ago had grown dim and reddish.
AFAIR long ago people preferred the current scheme over presented alternatives, despite the low contrast issue being acknowledged. I assume a trade off for aesthetics.
Part of it is that I would look around to see what people were saying about dillo, and there would be comments that the dillo developers must be colorblind. And part of it is that, after changing monitors, I particularly haven't liked the purple.
dillo.org colors look very bad to me. The white text on blueish background would be ok, but the background for headings and the gray color for links makes it all unbearable to my taste. I find the colors of corvid's version ok, but the whole visual appearance looks dated. I am merely a bystander and my intention is to express my opinion, not criticism. -- Rogut?s
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:47:18PM +0300, Rogut??s Sparnuotos wrote:
corvid (2012-10-10 16:49):
Jorge wrote:
IIRC your problem with the current color scheme was fuzzy contrast on your monitor. A technical issue, similar OTOH to high contrast headaches.
Everything appears okay on my current one. The one that I had a few years ago had grown dim and reddish.
AFAIR long ago people preferred the current scheme over presented alternatives, despite the low contrast issue being acknowledged. I assume a trade off for aesthetics.
Part of it is that I would look around to see what people were saying about dillo, and there would be comments that the dillo developers must be colorblind. And part of it is that, after changing monitors, I particularly haven't liked the purple.
dillo.org colors look very bad to me. The white text on blueish background would be ok, but the background for headings and the gray color for links makes it all unbearable to my taste.
I find the colors of corvid's version ok, but the whole visual appearance looks dated.
I am merely a bystander and my intention is to express my opinion, not criticism.
What do you think of the 3 alternatives presented? -- Cheers Jorge.-
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 04:49:38PM +0000, corvid wrote:
[...] As aesthetics is a matter of personal taste, I've prepared a couple of alternatives with better contrast palette:
http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo2.tmp1.html http://www.dillo.org/test/dillo2.tmp2.html
I like both over "dillo2.html".
I like tmp1 for its lively colors (though "waterish"), and also like tmp2 for its more integrated "airish" palette (a bit "serious" too).
I looked around the web a little bit at the time with firefox to see what the style of the day is, and there seemed to be a lot of whites and pale grays and pale blues.
What do you think of tmp1 and tmp2?
PS I wonder about the anybrowser gif in the sidebar. It screams 1996 to me.
It can be replaced with something better.
Let's see... A couple that appeal to me are:
Yes, both look much better. -- Cheers Jorge.-
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