H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Oct 6, 2017 03:33 AM EDT:
I have no idea what improper design you have in mind. The code you mentioned serves a purpose, and getting rid of it would be gutting functionality.
Well, I wasn't suggesting you were just using that code as a filler to drive up hosting costs. But if the code to serve that purpose is nearly the same for nearly every page, the proper design would be to locate it in a separate file, and just put a link to that file in all those pages. Then the code would need to be loaded only once for every user visiting the site, and all pages he would access for a long time to come would use the version cached in his browser.
What do you think requires more functionality on this page, the menu bar, or the interactive diagram for Golden Age Chess? Now take a look at the page source. The diagram makes up about 25 short lines of that, the menu bar about 500 sometimes excessively long lines (line 11-59 for in-page style definitions, and line 80-513 for the HTML and JavaScript). The HTML source of all pages here seems about 10 times as long as one can reasonably expect from their content.
The banner is centered on the screen, and as soon as there isn't room for it to remain centered on the screen between the logo and the share widget, it drops down lower.
Indeed. This is a bit like explaining to a person whose house you just set on fire how chemical reactions with oxygen work, so that what he is seeing is a quite natural phenomenon, and nothing to worry about.The point is of course that it is wrong to require that the banner is centered when there is obviously not enough room to center it in-line with the logo. What is so important about centering that banner that justifies it taking extra vertical space pushing content off screen? Who would die if it was right-justified instead?
No website I have ever seen does this with its header. Have you conducted a poll under users, and did the majority all say "Wow, this is really how a page header should look! Amazing no one else ever invented such a beautiful layout!" when you presented them with the header screenshot I posted? I would be surprised if you could find anyone who didn't think it sucks big time. Worrying about how much a descender of a capital Q protrudes under these conditions seems a very strange priority.
Well, I wasn't suggesting you were just using that code as a filler to drive up hosting costs. But if the code to serve that purpose is nearly the same for nearly every page, the proper design would be to locate it in a separate file, and just put a link to that file in all those pages. Then the code would need to be loaded only once for every user visiting the site, and all pages he would access for a long time to come would use the version cached in his browser.
What do you think requires more functionality on this page, the menu bar, or the interactive diagram for Golden Age Chess? Now take a look at the page source. The diagram makes up about 25 short lines of that, the menu bar about 500 sometimes excessively long lines (line 11-59 for in-page style definitions, and line 80-513 for the HTML and JavaScript). The HTML source of all pages here seems about 10 times as long as one can reasonably expect from their content.
Indeed. This is a bit like explaining to a person whose house you just set on fire how chemical reactions with oxygen work, so that what he is seeing is a quite natural phenomenon, and nothing to worry about.The point is of course that it is wrong to require that the banner is centered when there is obviously not enough room to center it in-line with the logo. What is so important about centering that banner that justifies it taking extra vertical space pushing content off screen? Who would die if it was right-justified instead?
No website I have ever seen does this with its header. Have you conducted a poll under users, and did the majority all say "Wow, this is really how a page header should look! Amazing no one else ever invented such a beautiful layout!" when you presented them with the header screenshot I posted? I would be surprised if you could find anyone who didn't think it sucks big time. Worrying about how much a descender of a capital Q protrudes under these conditions seems a very strange priority.