On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 11:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
> > On 1 September 2010 16:03, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Hmmm ... that's potentially useful, but I really really dislike the way
> >> that the button hangs there despite scrolling. It's intrusive and it
> >> absolutely screams "won't work in all browsers". Can't it just be a
> >> button or menu at the top of the page?
>
> > It works in Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, and IE7/8.
>
> The bane of the modern web is designers who think like that.
>
> As an example, do you think that anyone trying to read one of these
> pages on a cell-phone-sized screen is going to thank you for taking up
> some of his screen with this?
Not anymore than all the other stuff on the screen (like the search box,
header and excess space between the breadcrumb, the title and the fast
forward links). I just looked at the page on my handy HTC Incredible
(still no Froyo!) and it looks great. The content box doesn't hover like
in chrome proper but the page looks good.
JD
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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