[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Tom Hughes wrote:
> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>> Tom Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> Screen size is of course irrelevant to browser window size, 
>>> unless you're one of those weird web designers that seems to 
>>> think everybody runs their browser full screen all the time...
>> IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web
>> browser, and most things, full screen. Hence the aberration that is "MDI".
>> Us Mac people, by contrast, usually have about 57 different non-full screen
>> windows overlapping - that's why Apple came up with Expose to help us find
>> them all. I dunno what Linux people do - whatever RMS has decreed is in the
>> best interests of some weird notion of "freedom", I guess. <runs away very
>> very fast>
> 
> That's a bit pot calling the kettle black though - back when I was using 
> Macs, which admittedly was quite a long time ago, everything ran full 
> screen all the time and you were forever flipping back and forth between 
> applications. All long after Windows had given you the ability to have 
> multiple things open alongside each other.
> 
> Hell, even Windows 1 let you do that - it just could overlap the windows 
> at all ;-)

Sometimes I really wish I could have that windows 1 style back.

I.e. having windows automatically tiled the whole time, making maximum
use of screen real estate. When you moved the bottom of one window, for
example, you were dragging the top of the window beneath it. While I
usually overlap my windows, and don't mind, sometimes the ability to
force them into a grid layout would be really useful.

Perhaps we can use JS to detect screen size and vary certain elements a bit.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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