Dear Readers,
given that today is a somewhat slow news day, and given that our new design and rotating background system is now around for some time, I felt like asking you all to give us feedback.
First of all, a big thanks to all the readers who sent in complaints and praise for the new layout and the image choice. We have read each and every email with great pleasure.
From a performance standpoint, the difference between “Backgrounds” and “no Backgrounds” is minimal. This means that site performance will not be affected much (outside of peak times) irregardless of whether we enable the background images or not.
Editorial effort, also, is minimal. The images have already been shot for reporting purposes, and are essentially being recycled here.
Thus, the question is: do you like the idea?
Sound off in the comments or via a twitter message to the user tamhanna. There is no need to register!!
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“From a performance standpoint, the difference between “Backgrounds” and “no Backgrounds” is minimal.”
Wrong!
Hi bsp,
thank you so much for talking back!
I was referring to server side performance, however – not to client side. May I ask what browser you are using?
All the best
Tam Hanna
No Backgroundpictures, please
Hi Jon,
thank you so much for talking back.
I hope to find a “toggle option” soon!
All the best
Tam Hanna
Firefox
Hi bsp,
what do you mean by Firefox?
All the best&big thanks for talking back
Tam Hanna
“May I ask what browser you are using?”
FIREFOX!!!
And don’t tell me that Opera is the better choice. I am using firefox like zillions of other users do. Accept the fact that your website sucks if you don’t remove the silly background images.
Hi bsp,
sorry for the misunderstanding – I am working almost 20 hours a day on a book.
So it is the rendering performance which disturbs you? I am working on a fix for this. Or is it the whole idea you dislike, irregardless of performance considerations?
As a sidenote: I have to admit that I have all but given up on Firefox when they gave up on Windows Mobile…
All the best
Tam Hanna
I concur: the background image surcks big time! I managed to filter it out thanks to AdBlock+ in Firefox. But I still hate the light gray over dark grey font in comments and the silly pink font for links. Can’t you revert to black on white? The Register is so much more pleasant to read. Or provide more than one style so we can choose from? I often get so fed up with your dark background and select the No style version in Firefox, even if this means losing all formatting…
Luc:
Use Adblock+ to remove all the ads, related stuff and the background image.
Using the NO COLOR AddOn lets you toggle the colors to b/w with one click, but keeps the formatting.
Readability and performance is much better then, but i can not understand just why Tam is so ignorant of the facts.
Tam:
If you want to do worse, you might consider this option: Make your site all flash.
bsp wrote:
> Using the NO COLOR AddOn lets you toggle the colors to b/w with one click
> but keeps the formatting.
Great! Too bad it affects all tabs and not just Tam’s
Hi Folks,
I have to admit that I am working on a style toggle.
However, I am not sure how to implement this due to the caching!
All the best
Tam Hanna