Re: Announcing the book on the website

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 24 March 2008 00:09, pl...@pi... wrote:
> The whole upper section is too big in my view, about 2/3 of my browser  
> window. You could let the menu start at top left (classic position) , this  
> would reduce the overall height.

Yeah, something seems to have broken in the layout of that top section.
That should be fixed, independent of anything to do with the book.
A more complete css stylesheet could do wonders.

	Ethan

 
> The H1 is wrapping here and a quick look at sourse shows several typos  
> that are probably causing irregular results as different browsers try to  
> guess how it should render the faults.
> 
> It seems , like me , you like to do your html by hand but the human eye is  
> not the most efficient parser for checking typos.
> 
> You could use a syntax aware editor (I use kdevelop or bluefish for html)  
> of check out the online verification tools of w3c.  
> http://validator.w3.org/check#
> 
> >> This page is not Valid -//w3c//dtd html 4.0  
> >> transitional//en!Result:	Failed validation, 18 Errors
> 
> If you use Opera it has a rightclick option that submits the current page  
> to this checker in one click, it gives you exact info on each error. HTH.
> 
> 
> 
> In general , I agree with others that the TOC is a bit out of place here.  
> The book is a great asset to gnuplot but probably should remain a minor  
> part of the homepage. I also don't understand why the link Gnuplot in  
> Action links back to the same page. This should go to the homepage of the  
> book where stuff like TOC can be seen in detail.
> 
> I find the main text is getting a bit too small. It's getting to the point  
> where the font rendering is getting a somewhat distorted. Again this may  
> be the result of errors in the markup.
> 
> regards, Peter.
> 
> 
> 
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