apology

[Neil Stevens]

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On Friday October 18, 2002 03:01, Sebastian Faubel wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I wanted to say sorry for the verbal offences against Neil Stevens and
> Jason Bainbridge in my last mails.

Thanks, and I'm sorry things coudn't have started off better.

> I was really angry about the fact that i have missed the whole
> communication between all of you as i was not subscribed to the kde-www
> mailing list, due to the fact that it is not listed on the kde.org
> (kde.org -> mailing lists). I felt somehow excluded to the process of
> making desicions, this was truly my fault.

Reasonable.

> You can take it or leave it, but another thing that i have to make clear
> is that there's no copyright or non public license on my code, images or
> other things. You can use it, modify it or do whatever you want, but I
> would be glad to know about it - just for having the opportunity to give
> tipps or critics, which will shurely not be offensive again, but as
> objective as i can.

Good to hear.  I did like your use of lines, and the overall airy feel of 
the design very much.  That's why I along with Jason worked to solve some 
problems we had with it:

1. We moved to XHTML, and added a print media stylesheet
2. We moved to a single menu, so that the user doesn't have to search toom 
uch to find links, and so that even on small screens there is room for the 
main text to be shown.
3. We moved the search to a less prominent place, because being in the 
middle is in the way, especially on a small screen.
4. We modified the logo graphic to fit in with the CSS better
5. We removed all hard-coded fonts, as some users *need* to have sites 
honor their own fonts.  Small fonts are simply illegible to some people!

I hope to know what your comments are to these issues, and I hope that in 
understanding why we modified your code, you'll appreciate how we're 
trying to balance the many priorities in a good HTML design.

By the way, KDE does actively support 800x600 screens for the desktop 
itself, so when I say small screen I mean a 600 pixel wide Konqueror 
window, as users shoudln't have to maximize the window to read the site.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"The nearest I can make it out, 'Love your Enemies' means, 'Hate your
Friends'." - Benjamin Franklin
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