On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:43:28AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
Dave Grogan wrote:
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I regularly see things identified by color codes
which are
insufficiently distinguishable from one another. Past 9 or 10, it can
get rough...
Yeah, there are only about 8 good ones that are really distinctive, and
then after about 20 you can get into some hairy situations. It's not
that bad though because usually an off-green is next to an off-red or
something. It's only bad when a color and two of its off-colors are all
close.
Let's not forget the color-blind and the monochrome screen-users.
It's an enhancement; accessibility is *slightly* less important than it
is to mainline functionality.
For a while.
IMHO.
(That's not dissing the handicapped; it's a scheduling/priority opinion.)
I might have
it wrap after 10 but add a hover feature that will
pop up the contributor's name.
I would strongly suggest using such a hover feature. Pop-ups with links
to details might be rather more useful, actually, enabling popping over
to the specific diff that made the change.
I do fear how this stuff is going to work on pages with tens of
thousands of edits, but... ;)
Set fences on the earliest and latest versions it displays? Showing
older material in just black on white?
Cheers,
-- jra
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