Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > There are just too many things going on. Reduce the number of
> > colors, reduce the number of different border designs (round, not
> > round), make the borders less busy (remove the line), remove the
> > shadows, reduce the number of different levels of indentation.
>
> Personally, I would be disappointed if we backed off from these
> changes much. The current docs look like something I would have
> seen coming off the bidirectional print-head of a Teletype(R)
> machine a few decades ago. I've gone back and forth between that
Agreed.
> and Thom's latest draft trying to pick out useful information on
> various pages, and for me the visual cues help considerably in
> finding what I want. On top of that, switching to the new look is a
> refreshing experience each time; when I switch back to our current
> docs, I can actually feel my eyes tighten up as they prepare to pick
> out content from a mass of uniform text.
>
> I know people process visual information differently, but I really
> have a hard time seeing anything offensive about where Thom has
> taken it, and that was based on a lot of feedback from several
> different people.
Agreed.
FYI, everyone should be looking at the same version:
http://pgweb.darkixion.com:8081/docs/8.4/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html
If we make these changes, there is nothing in stone preventing us from
tweaking it later, but I think there is general agreement that the new
format is an improvement. We have to accept we will never make everyone
happy.
The only constructive suggestion I can make to perhaps make more people
happy would be to go with only vertical lines to highlight the code
blocks, e.g. instead of:
+-------------+| text |+-------------+
we do| text |
but I am not sure if I even would prefer that.
FYI, I would like to see this rolled into our production web server in
the next few days so it is ready for the 9.0 release.
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