Reorganizing python.org (was: Why isn't pychecker...)

[Christian Tanzer]

Gerrit Muller <gerrit.muller at philips.com> wrote:

> > > > Another example, the otherwise superb intro to Tkinter,
> > > > http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/index.htm
> > > > would be vastly more useful if it fit on a single page.
> > >
> > >     Define "page".  If you say 800x600 you'd lose.
> >
> > Good question.  How would you define a page in terms of web design?
> >
> > Eliminating most if not all scrolling on reference pages seems
> > particularly important. Some reference pages seem way too long.  And
> > your point is well taken.  I have a large monitor, but I use relatively
> > big fonts, so I'm only using 1024x768...
> >
> > Edward
> <...snip...>
> at this moment in time 1024*768 is a reasonable choice; the poor 14" CRT
> users will need some scrolling, but all more lucky 15" LCD and 17" CRT
> and above will have a scroll free overview.

You are assuming that everybody is wasting the full screen on the
browser's window. That might be true for the average windows user but
is not true in general. For instance, my monitor displays 1800x1024,
but the browser gets only about 850x650 of that.

IMHO, software/web pages making such assumptions suck.

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