From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6053 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2002 23:30:38 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 13 Mar 2002 23:30:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 14632 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2002 23:30:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4756 Received: (qmail 14620 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2002 23:30:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:30:11 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Oliver Kiddle Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk, Dominik Vogt Subject: Re: web page usability Message-ID: <20020313233011.GF12940@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020227144830.G5514@lifebits.de> <20020313125338.GA30662@logica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020313125338.GA30662@logica.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error In the last episode (Mar 13), Oliver Kiddle said: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:48:30PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > Two suggestions to improve the usability of the zsh web page: > > > > 1) Put the NEWS file on the web. Helps a lot in finding out if > > you want to upgrade. > > I've now put this on. I couldn't call the page News because that is > already taken so I called it "Release Notes". Let me know if you have > any better suggestions. > > If I get around to it, I'll also add a features page with a table > comparing the various shells along the lines of what Felix was asking > for recently. Unless anyone else wants to volunteer? > > Also on the subject of the web pages, can anyone convert the favicon > from a .png to a .ico without losing the transparency (so that IE > users get to see it and not just Mozilla users)? Or can .ico only > handle on-off transparency? Also, if anyone with greater imagination > or artistic talent than me wants to design a better icon then please > do so. For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know what favicons are, > they are just little images that appear in the url bar or bookmarks > list. IE finds them by looking for favicon.ico on every web page it > accesses (yuk) while Mozilla uses a tag. I've just used a blue > `Z' on the zsh web pages. .ico files have a single bitplane of transparency, so it's on/off. I use ppmtowinicon (part of netpbm) to generate my favicons; it lets you specify a transparency bitmask. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com