RE: [Tools-discuss] Help the aged!

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

They are now in upper cases with vertical lines and extra spaces in
between them.

Best regards,
Michael Lee,
IETF Secretariat.


> -----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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