Re: Epiphany homepage

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:01:46PM -0500, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> On 9 Feb, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> >...
> >I've added a short paragraph about what Epiphany offers above 
> >Mozilla/Firefox under the Features heading.
> 
> A good start, but it's still "below the fold" (i.e requires scrolling 
> to see it with many browser configurations).

Yes.  I think that the main screenshot should be removed and replaced
with something that feels like it integrates with the rest of the page a
bit nicer.  The page feels.... "odd" with the screenshot of epi at the
top like that.

Another comment I have is that the icons for each feature aren't really
a good representation of the feature.  [snip the rest as this is addressed
already below]

> >The current preview page is 
> >http://www.cs.vu.nl/~reinout/epiphany.xhtml now (since Adam converted 
> >it to XHTML, I even had to edit .htaccess to get Apache to serve the 
> >right mime type..)
> 
> Does that mean Internet Explorer users can't read it? (If so, does that 
> matter?)

Yes and yes.  Under IE (xpsp2) for me I get prompted to open with
another app (firefox in this case).  xhtml is great and all, but there
is enough bitching about IE only sites that I don't think starting
non-ie only sites is A Good Idea.  Maybe some sort of CSS or apache
trick to make things standards compliant and cross browser without
maintaining two sites?

> >>Make obvious, decent-sized (but cropped) screenshots of the killer 
> >>features that should make people want to switch from Firefox. (There 
> >>aren't any? Then
> >
> >Yes, the icons on the current page should be replaced by nice 
> >screenshots, I'm just waiting for anyone to Gimp them up.

Agreed.  If I have time tonight I'll see if I can help out here.

> Hmmm, none of the images are displaying in my copy of Firefox. (They 
> work fine in Safari.) Is this deliberate? :-)

Which images are you referring to?

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