RE: [Tools-discuss] Help the aged!

["Lee, Michael" <Michael.Lee at neustar.biz>]

Vertical lines were removed.

Michael.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Levkowetz [mailto:henrik at levkowetz.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:22 AM
> To: Lee, Michael
> Cc: Elwyn Davies; Tools Team Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Help the aged!
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 2006-07-20 15:47 Lee, Michael said the following:
> > They are now in upper cases with vertical lines and extra spaces in
> > between them.
> 
> That's fast turn-around :-)
> 
> As for the vertical lines, I would prefer to loose them - they just
> add clutter.  There's no need for them as long as all of the links
> they separate are single letters, I think.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Henrik
> 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Henrik Levkowetz [mailto:henrik at levkowetz.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:38 AM
> >> To: Elwyn Davies
> >> Cc: Tools Team Discussion; Lee, Michael
> >> Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Help the aged!
> >>
> >> Hi Elwyn,
> >>
> >>   (adding a Cc. to Michael as this is his bailiwick)
> >>
> >> on 2006-07-20 00:50 Elwyn Davies said the following:
> >>> Hi.
> >>>
> >>> Hitting the 'links' for selecting drafts for wgs and authors with
a
> >>> particular initial letter (on
> >>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/idindex.cgi) requires a degree
> > of
> >>> manual dexterity that I find a tiny bit difficult after a couple
of
> >>> beers now I am turning into an old fogey.
> >>>
> >>> Without taking up significantly more screen real estate can I
> > suggest
> >>> either using .
> >>> A|B|C|D|E... (as per the watersprings interface -
> >>> http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/)
> >>> or
> >>> A B C D E...
> >> This variation would seem to be the most preferred for me.
> >>
> >>> This gives about 15-20% more dither room for the positionally
> > challenged
> >>> as compared with
> >>> a b c d e
> >>> as we have today.
> >>>
> >>> FWIW I find it a lot easier to zero in on the upper case version
for
> >>> some reason (this may be at least partially a psychological effect
> >>> because the upper case letters have a more even body width and the
> >>> outlines tend to enclose more of the 'active' space whereas the
> > outlines
> >>> of the lower case letters only occupy a smaller proportion of the
> > space
> >>> as well as having narrower bodies  leading to them being kerned
more
> >>> closely together - I guess one naturally tries to click on the
> > 'middle'
> >>> of the outline).
> >> Yup.
> >>
> >> One more thing: An additional way of approaching this is to use
> > Firefox'
> >> Command-+ (or Control-+) to enlarge the text so it feels more
> > comfortable
> >> for navigation.  But I still think it makes sense to go with
uppercase
> >> letters.
> >>
> >> 	Henrik
> >


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