These kinds of designs often work badly with flash, as can be seen by the flash ad on the page: http://i.imgur.com/qycS8.png
(flash in most (all?) browsers appears on top of even html regardless of specific css rules)
Slashdot Launches Re-Design
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#12Slashdot? I read HN.
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#13I was going to make a snarky comment like Slash..who? But I clicked and it the UI looks much better!
It definitely looks better, but as with everything new I see on Slashdot and SourceForge these days it seems a little to late.
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#14Slashdot? I read HN.
I'm lucky in that I have a somewhat more open relationship with HN; HN allows me to view other sites, and in return I let HN have more users than just me
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#15The Apple category seems to be gone from the front page.
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#16Still no Unicode
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#17These kinds of designs often work badly with flash, as can be seen by the flash ad on the page: http://i.imgur.com/qycS8.png (flash in most (all?) browsers appears on top of even html regardless of specific css rules)
There's an option for window mode in the HTML used to embed flash. You can set it to behave nicely, but (surprise!) most advertisers don't.
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#18These kinds of designs often work badly with flash, as can be seen by the flash ad on the page: http://i.imgur.com/qycS8.png (flash in most (all?) browsers appears on top of even html regardless of specific css rules)
For the record, Flash will respect z-index if you set the wmode param.
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#19These kinds of designs often work badly with flash, as can be seen by the flash ad on the page: http://i.imgur.com/qycS8.png (flash in most (all?) browsers appears on top of even html regardless of specific css rules)
For the record, Flash will respect z-index if you set the wmode param. http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=e5141
If I remember correctly, setting the wmode param slows down flash performance significantly. I also remember it having significant trouble in opera. However, it's possible that these issues are now fixed in the newer browsers, but I'm pretty sure that older browsers still experience them.
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#20still ugly.