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LCA: The state of Debian

Posted Jan 28, 2008 3:09 UTC (Mon) by jordanb (guest, #45668)
Parent article: LCA: The state of Debian

> On the packaging front: the packages.qa.debian.org site has been redone 
> in "beautiful CSS."


Wow! Let me be the first to say I *love* the new design. So fresh and bold, yet with echoes of
the venerable old system.

I'm glad that they let you choose the old design with a cookie. I know a lot of people won't
be able to get used to the new one, so good that they have the option. I'm sure without it
they never would have managed to get the consensus together to make such sweeping changes.

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Posted Jan 29, 2008 12:36 UTC (Tue) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]

I agree, it is a really breathtaking design. I especially love how it is completely identical
to the legacy design.

One point of worry for me is that the layout is too advanced. The CSS is _huge_ (7 entire
lines!) meaning that scrolling the page could slow down to a crawl on older computers. Perhaps
a more lightweight design should be the default?

LCA: The state of Debian

Posted Jan 30, 2008 0:59 UTC (Wed) by N0NB (guest, #3407) [Link]

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I tried both Iceweasel and Konquerer and never
noticed a change to the page at all regardless of the setting and whether I clicked the
Remember This Style button or not.

I guess my Sid installation is CSS incapable.  :-\