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Wikipedia Redefined

43 points by atacrawl 14y ago

stephenr 14y ago
>Imagine you were granted the magic power to change any website in the whole world-wide web the way you like it, to make it better, more functional, more useful, better looking, more pleasing or disrupting to the eye. > Which one would you pick? Well I'd remove the stupid fucking fake scroll bar from http://www.wikipediaredefined.com http://www.wikipediaredefined.com for starters. It's horribly unusable on Safari.
- EvilTerran 14y ago
  That scrollbar also renders the page completely unusable without a mouse. I'm on a notebook here: - my trackpoint isn't precise enough to move the slider at a reasonable speed; - there's no click-to-scroll-up/-down buttons, common to pretty much all native scrollbars; - the up/down arrow keys don't work on that page, either; - oh, and it's ugly, as well as breaking the user's interface expectations.
  - stephenr 14y ago
    Tell me about it. I'm on a MBP and two finger scrolling doesn't work at all for this page.
  - deleted 14y ago
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  - johnchristopher 14y ago
    What browser ? I am using latest firefox on latest fedora and I don't see any problems. No fake scrollbars either. Maybe it has been fixed ?
    - EvilTerran 14y ago
      Yeah, looks like it's been changed. There was originally some "arty" looking scroll bar that looked like it was hand-rolled out of images and javascript, and completely failed to have any of the many subtle features that native scrollbars have gained over the years.
  - Corvus 14y ago
    Also note getting the count of articles by language, in fact all the language tools, require hover. This thing is unusable on tablets or phones.
- EmilStenstrom 14y ago
  Since they fixed the issue your reported, what are your thoughts on the project they are trying to push?
nattybumppo 14y ago
Terrific suggestions. I'm a bit lukewarm on the branding (it looks nice, but I don't know enough about marketing to really give it a fair assessment), but their redesign of the site content presentation is really practical, easy on the eyes, and improves usability a lot. I'd love to see something like this in practice.
johnchristopher 14y ago
I like the results. Maybe it's another wave of "redesigned websites" ?

43 points by atacrawl 14y ago

>Imagine you were granted the magic power to change any website in the whole world-wide web the way you like it, to make it better, more functional, more useful, better looking, more pleasing or disrupting to the eye. > Which one would you pick? Well I'd remove the stupid fucking fake scroll bar from http://www.wikipediaredefined.com http://www.wikipediaredefined.com for starters. It's horribly unusable on Safari.

EvilTerran 14y ago
That scrollbar also renders the page completely unusable without a mouse. I'm on a notebook here: - my trackpoint isn't precise enough to move the slider at a reasonable speed; - there's no click-to-scroll-up/-down buttons, common to pretty much all native scrollbars; - the up/down arrow keys don't work on that page, either; - oh, and it's ugly, as well as breaking the user's interface expectations.
- stephenr 14y ago
  Tell me about it. I'm on a MBP and two finger scrolling doesn't work at all for this page.
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]
- johnchristopher 14y ago
  What browser ? I am using latest firefox on latest fedora and I don't see any problems. No fake scrollbars either. Maybe it has been fixed ?
  - EvilTerran 14y ago
    Yeah, looks like it's been changed. There was originally some "arty" looking scroll bar that looked like it was hand-rolled out of images and javascript, and completely failed to have any of the many subtle features that native scrollbars have gained over the years.
- Corvus 14y ago
  Also note getting the count of articles by language, in fact all the language tools, require hover. This thing is unusable on tablets or phones.
EmilStenstrom 14y ago
Since they fixed the issue your reported, what are your thoughts on the project they are trying to push?

nattybumppo 14y ago

Terrific suggestions. I'm a bit lukewarm on the branding (it looks nice, but I don't know enough about marketing to really give it a fair assessment), but their redesign of the site content presentation is really practical, easy on the eyes, and improves usability a lot. I'd love to see something like this in practice.

johnchristopher 14y ago

I like the results. Maybe it's another wave of "redesigned websites" ?