[openstreetmap-website] Styling a new SimplePanZoom control, similar to the old one (#62)

[Tom Hughes]

On 08/08/12 08:14, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> On 08/07/12 22:51, Tom MacWright wrote:
>> but with sprites and simplification.
>
> I'm probably too thick to understand what the advantages of sprites and
> simplification are, but for viewing in a standard browser window I think
> that this submission is not design improvement:

Sprites just means that it is storing all the images used in a single 
image file and chopping it up client side to optimised load times.

> * it is wider than the old one and not transparent, therefore has a much
> more massive appearance than the old control and obstructs the map more;
>
> * since the control has the same colour as the page background, to me it
> feels like someone has punched a hole into the map at that location -
> looks funny.

We can easily give it some transparency, though we should change the 
layer selector as well if we do.

> It is possible that I am just too used to the old layout but unless
> "sprites" and "simplification" is something we must desperately have, I
> liked the old one better.

Well the big improvement to my mind it making it match the style of the 
new layer selector and generally fit in better with the style of the 
site - the blue at the moment is very bold and looks out of place with 
all the other recent changes.

Tom

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