New design: I'm not really all that happy with it, but it embodies the principles I wanted (scroll right rather than down to get to articles on the front page, dates displayed vertically) and frankly I am bored with poncing around with it. I'd like more images, too, but I have more important stuff and it's become a black hole for time. I'll leave this up until it annoys me enough to do better again.
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Nick
Nice idea.
Our research at Cualinet, though, suggested that users dislike horizontal scrolling as a necessary interaction method.
(Personally, I hate horizontal scrolling, which is why I mention this at all. :)
To Martin: 2D-scrolling wheelmice do exist! Microsoft have one in the pipeline, too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3131453.stm
sil
Really? It’s not broken in Firebird in my testing, on either Linux or Win2k.
Did I say I hate web design? I hate web design.
Gary F
I like it. Nice idea. But (isn’t there always a but) it’s broken in Firebird. The content is not clearing the header, making reading entries impossible. Here is a cropped image, with the scroll bar all the way up:
http://solitude.vkps.co.uk/Images/KryoTest.gif
sil
Permanently switching styles should be supported by your browser too. ;) The fact that no browser does this is not strictly my fault. :)
I’ll have a think about it; last time I tried using a JS switcher it screwed up half the time, but I’ll have a look…
Simon Gill
I am, but I need to change the style every time I want to read the site. Ice, Coffee and Blue(Red) are just so much more readable and it would be nice to see those immediately.
sil
Nope. Switching styles should be supported by your browser :-)
Simon Gill
Huh
While an interesting idea, maybe you could drop in the javascript style switcher ala zeldman.com ?
sil
Knackers. I don’t have a mac :( I’ll have a think about that, but it look s awfully like Safari and Camino aren’t handling position:fixed correctly. Camino flamin’ well ought to, it’s Mozilla under the covers. Bah. More thought required. I hate web design.
paul
sil
Yeah, I know it’s a little broken in IE, but somehow I just can’t bring myself to care enough, heh. Will fix it at some point…
Martin
Veeery cool… altho I love the right scrolling idea per se, it’s not very ‘useable‘, as a wheelmouse doesn’t scroll sideways sadly.
The ‘white gap in the middle’ Paul comments on is only visible in IE, which doesn’t handle that kind of CSS properly.
Paul
Woah, I though the site was broken for a minute :) Interesting design, like a lot of it, but you have a huge white gap in the middle and you can scroll down and right because of the nav bar stuff.
I have a 2d scrolling mouse at work, it has two buttons. I don’t think I ever used the other wheel until yesterday…