Low bandwith view is way more usable than the normal view

Question

For the MSDN library, the huge header and frequently faulty TOC that you have to scroll up to see just get in the way IMO.

Answer 1

Thank for the feedback :)

Anand..

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Answer 2

ffuck you

Answer 3

The font size and table spacing are oddly larger (liking the font/size used for ScriptFree and Classic more), and the indentation of the description under the function parameter lists is barely 2 em, making it slower to scan through them (ScriptFree and Classic have 6-8 em indentation). I do like it though, as most of the time I'm only interested in the functions in the TOC at the same level, or above. Plus, it seems lighter, with more screen real-estate (that classic header has a lot of empty space in it). Appreciated..

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Dwayne Robinson

Answer 4

Anand, this (script free) is a vast improvement precisely because it is a return to the web as it was intended, which is to say a giant collaboratively maintained hyperlinked document, not a multimedia wankfest. Ornamentation for the sake of ornamentation (eg the blue fade) is just bandwidth wasting junk.

Some branding is a good thing; it tells you you're looking at (for example) official MS documentation. If I were designing this there would be a Microsoft logo watermark top right. When I say watermark I mean it in the classic sense: quite faded so you can read content over it but also fairly big, like a watermark in government letterhead. It should be background non-scroll, along with any other useful branding such as the msdn logo. All the branding should be watermarking, so that the entire window is available to content.

This is clearly the direction you're considering, and I applaud your efforts - in particular, your exploitation of the entire window instead of fixed width (like this one).

Answer 5

yes, both the lightweight and no-script versions are VAST improvements over the original. it's like night and day. there were times i would avoid the official documentation just because the website was so slow, bloated, buggy, and downright annoying to use.