alps hypertexte - Entries from May 2007

But perhaps Opera's greatest competitive advantage came from some of the earliest decisions in its design. From the very beginning, Opera was built from a very lean and modular code base, particularly when compared with the sprawling Mozilla source tree.

"[Opera] didn't have enough people to make it bloated," Lie quips.

Opera's open source conundrum

• Content Padding. Also wie weit sich die mittlere Contentspalte ausdehnt. Werte gehen von 0% (also volle Breite) bis 24% Außenabstand (also relativ dünn). Adaptation 0.4.2 (was auch hier noch läuft) hat noch standardmäßig 16% Außenabstand
• Header width. Entweder geht der Header (oben das Schwarze) so wie jetzt über die volle Breite, oder er kann so eingestellt werden, dass die Breite mit der der Contentspalte übereinstimmt.
• Gleiches gilt für den Footer (das Schwarze Teil ganz unten)
• Header und Footer color lassen sich verändern. Die Farbe muss also nicht Schwarz sein, sondern kann auch jede der anderen Farben, die man schon für den RSS-Icon und die Links aussuchen konnte, annehmen. Natürlich voneinander getrennt, so dass auch Kombinationen möglich sind.
• Arial und Verdana als auswählbare Fonts dazugepackt
• Farben aufgepeppelt. Grüneres Grün, roteres Rot usw.

As much as it hurts to admit it, most of the important decisions of website development are not made by design professionals. They’re made by the business owners and middle managers who hire us. After all, it is they who hold the purse strings, so it’s only fair that they set the online priorities.

Unfortunately, this situation does have one major drawback. Although such people may be very well meaning, they are often blissfully unaware of the factors that should and do influence decision making on the web. The unhappy result is that poor investment choices are often made. For example, an executive who is oblivious to the potential of handheld computing might commission a site that is unusable on mobile phones. Similarly, an application that is built in ignorance of internet law might end up costing a small fortune in legal fees.

Educate Your Stakeholders!

• WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
• Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.

Wordpress 2.2 - wordpress.org