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[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:32:37PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > On 2009.07.05 12:09:20 +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> >> Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> >>> Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Maybe one should test with Firefox 2.X and the KDE browser.
> >>> FYI it works completely fine with Firefox 2.0.0.20.
> >> I also tested with latest Safari on OS X Leopard where it works okay. I 
> >> have also been told that the KDE browser works w/o problems too.
> >>
> >> So do you guys have any objections against me committing it?
> > 
> > I just tried it in Firefox where the bullet points between the items
> > show up - I think that's a regression as compared to the old vertical
> > bars which are much less 'visually intrusive'.  I don't really see the
> > point with that change?
> 
> Initially, I was trying with the gray bars, but later I have found out 
> that the page renders badly[1] in IE6 with those. Therefore I decided to 
> switch to bullets, which IMO look pretty nice in "modern" browsers and
> in IE6 they are not displayed at all, so a pretty good alternative.
> 
> However, if you guys think the bullets look too 'visually intrusive', I 
> am fine to switch back to gray bars (actually I already did to create 
> tie IE6 screenshot, but it's a matter of two lines in css to swich back 
> again :))
> 
> BTW the diff is at http://people.freebsd.org/~danger/menu.diff
>

I'm also not really a fan of the bullets.  If the problem existed in IE6
and no one complained, we should continue with the bars since the chance
people yell about will reduce with time :)

-- 
Marc