[OSM-dev] Slim layout for oauth authorization flow

[Tom Hughes]

On 12/01/11 17:20, Andy Allan wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Andy Allan<gravitystorm at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I've tried out some of these ideas on a branch and I'm looking for
>> feedback / suggestions on both the overall idea and especially the
>> implementation. It's not 100% (there's lots of paths need testing and
>> adapting) but enough that you get the idea. Simply point an oauth
>> client (e.g. potlatch2) at a local copy and spot the differences.
>>
>> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-website/tree/slim1
>>
>> Thoughts?

Well as I said to you in the pub last week there are definitely some 
issues with the implementation - it's more invasive than I think it 
probably needs to be. That can all be sorted out though.

More importantly, I don't actually think it looks very good - in fact 
aesthetically I think it looks worse than what we have now and that's 
quite an achievement ;-)

> OK, this is something I'd still like to see happening, but I'd like
> some more feedback if anyone has some. To help do that I've put some
> screenshots up of what things look like at
>
> http://gravitystorm.dev.openstreetmap.org/slim1/

Those have, of course, been done with what might charitably be described 
as an unusually sized browser window... What I see is something more 
like this:

http://tomh.dev.openstreetmap.org/slimoauth/

The second one in particular is horrible because of the long line of 
text pushing right across the page.

The logo stuck on it's own at the top just looks really odd as well.

I'm also rather concerned that it looks too different to OSM when a 
major point of OAuth is for people to wind up at a site they recognise 
as being OSM when they are authenticating.

> Also, is it possible for me to set up a copy of this branch on the dev
> server (e.g. slim1.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org) - so that other people
> (e.g. app designers) can comment without having to install the whole
> kaboodle?

Done, at http://slimoauth.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/.

Tom

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