Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/Areas

After reading where it says that users will tire of long webpages I wondered something. Why is it that I can an entire book in one sitting without tiring, but I can barely bring myself to read an entire webpage which is only a fraction of the length of an average book?? Jaberwocky6669 | &#x260E; 18:25, 21 October 2005 (UTC)


 * It´s harder to concentrate on long texts on todays electronical displays compared to text written on actual paper. Maybe when technology evolves this will change (think of electronic paper / e-ink).


 * And don´t forget: www pages are flexible. That means a line could have a broad of 30 characters (like a newspaper) or 3000 characters (on a very big screen). This varies with the size of your browser window for every website. Maybe Wikipedia should start thinking about columns? --84.169.52.4 18:43, 20 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I would prefer reading text in a line of 80 characters to 120 characters so that the length of line and its text is equivalent to that of a novel. unsigned comment added by Stevejbayer (talk • contribs) 10:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Architecture of audio version

 * Wikipedias structure will be easy to understand if it's appearance clearly shows the hierachal relationships between the things on the page:
 * The more important it is, the more visible it should be.
 * Logically related items should also be visually related.
 * Sub-items should be "nested".

I have a question: how to interpret these rules in audio version of Wikipedia? AirBa 10:25, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Interface - Editing
I suggest that the layout for the box for inserting special symbols is improved so that symbols used for editing (parentesis and tilde etc) are more easy to find, e.g. put them on the first line. See example here. Benkeboy 16:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

An issue of CSS compatibility
The Meta Wiki CSS class="Wikitable" contains the property "border-collapse=collapse". A number of browsers (IE6, NN7, Mozilla, Konq2.2, Safari, OW4.5) state partial support of it, but I don't have them all to check. IE6 doesn't have a problem, yet Firefox (all versions to 2) does not always draw all the vertical cell borders, and often large "wikitables" appear with partially drawn cell border. On reload, sometimes the problem is fixed, sometimes remains same or becomes worse. Either Mozilla has to fix the bug, or another way of defining the same style, without border-collapse, should be used. I've posted in Meta Wiki about it, but many Firfox users simply don't get this problem, so I don't know if it will be noticed. I keep checking on other computers using Firefox, to see if I can locate some additional flow that causes this instability. If anyone knows more about it, please help locate and fix the problem. Hoverfish 09:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)