Oh my, it looks ... bad and hard to read. Any way to spin off the previous UI?
Dash / Zeal haven't been updated yet so the previous UI should be present there. I currently have the previous UI in Dash.
MDN Redesign
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Re: MDN Redesign
#32What is this ?
Why advertise a service without any details about what it actually is ?
On one hand 5$ is a nominal monthly amount to support MDN. But seriously, just ask for money. I'd be more inclined to help if they just wrote a post saying ' servers ain't free, give us money before this turns into w3schools '.
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#33Change is hard, naturally there will be some inherent backlash, but one thing I think is a step backwards is the Browser Compatibility table at the bottom. Previously, it had the browser version inline for the cell, now it is just a check mark. To see what version, you need to click on the cell to expand some "more info" section at the bottom. Knowing if a feature was very recently supported or has been supported for…
I'm somewhat favorably surprised they kept the version history stuff at all instead of pointing to caniuse.com, which specializes in it.
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#34> In mid-2021 we started to think about modernizing MDN’s design [..] with an emphasis on improved navigability and a universal look and feel across all our pages. > > A new logo, chosen by our community [..] We worked closely with branding specialist Luc Doucedame Wait, this sounds like redesign for redesign's sake? > Coming soon: MDN Plus [..] In the coming months, we’ll be expanding MDN to include a premium subscr…
I imagine it's to try make it seem like MDN is still viable - Mozilla fired a good amount of their staff including allegedly most of the docs team.
You seem to be implying that MDN is no longer the best resource for reading documentation about web technologies. Outside of reading the W3C RFCs, is there something better out there?
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#35> In mid-2021 we started to think about modernizing MDN’s design [..] with an emphasis on improved navigability and a universal look and feel across all our pages. > > A new logo, chosen by our community [..] We worked closely with branding specialist Luc Doucedame Wait, this sounds like redesign for redesign's sake? > Coming soon: MDN Plus [..] In the coming months, we’ll be expanding MDN to include a premium subscr…
> Wait, this sounds like redesign for redesign's sake?
Is it "redesign for redesign's sake" if even your quoted text states the reasons behind it? ("improved navigability and a universal look and feel across all our pages")
Re: MDN Redesign
#36Too much white that's made too many of the visual cues I'd use to navigate blend in with the rest of the page. In the past, I could immediately scroll to polyfills, browser compat charts, etc without having to pay attention while scrolling because those sections were so distinct. I've missed them three times already today and had to start over, scrolling slowly. For me, this update decreases usability. If anyone from…
This one really hurts scanability, which was exceptionally good with the old design. I don't care what they do to the stuff around the content, but this redesign has made the content itself harder to use, which makes it a bad redesign, considering how content-focused the site is.
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#37The new site has readability issues, devs you can use the css to fix the font size and line height issues.
.homepage .article-tile p { font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4; }
.recent-contributions .request-title { font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4; }
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#38What's up with the huge amount of whitespace? This is supposed to be an information dense website, most of the screen is empty white. Not liking this, who designs this stuff? How to revert back, or I just need to add custom styles? Update: I added custom styles to remove 95% of the extra margins, padding, spacing, line-height, updated h1/h2/h3/h4 header styling, code highlight styling, and it looks 10 times better, I…
can you share your custom styles?
Re: MDN Redesign
#39> In mid-2021 we started to think about modernizing MDN’s design [..] with an emphasis on improved navigability and a universal look and feel across all our pages. > > A new logo, chosen by our community [..] We worked closely with branding specialist Luc Doucedame Wait, this sounds like redesign for redesign's sake? > Coming soon: MDN Plus [..] In the coming months, we’ll be expanding MDN to include a premium subscr…
I worked on a site that was redesigned every few years. As soon as one redesign finished another one would start. We, the development team, didn’t understand why the business people kept redesigning the site. We finally found out when we were chatting with one of the business people who was leaving for a new position. She admitted to us that the purpose of redesigning was 1. They could point to it as work they were doing to justify their jobs to higher ups, 2. Allowed them to expense meals and travel while meeting with design consultants and doing field research to see how to meet the needs of our users, 3. Allowed them to avoid the harder business work that they should have been working on instead of fun redesign work.
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#40I actually dislike the change to the Compatibility Chart. The checkmark serves the same purpose as green vs red boxes did (and is frankly less readable at a glance, not more) and being able to quickly see relative times features were added at a glance made it easy to evaluate whether to use a feature or not. Guess I'll have to revert to using Can I Use? for this again. I had mostly replaced that with MDN.
I’m almost sure this was done for accessibility reasons. For some people, red and green are the same color.