Fwd: " Broken" documentation site

[Stephen John Smoogen]

Forwarding this to you guys.

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From: Jeán van Wyk <jean.vanwyk at solnetsolutions.co.nz>
Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:53 PM
Subject: " Broken" documentation site
To: webmaster at fedoraproject.org


 Hi there,

I am writing to mention that your documentation site specifically :
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/...
eg.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/sn-expert-download.html
is "broken" if you do not allow cookies.

I understand that your navigation menu works with cookies and that you want
to inform people that it will not work correctly if they disable cookies.
At the same time there is nothing more irritating than being told the same
thing over and over again.

Your documentation website pops up a window on EVERY single page if you have
cookies disabled that tells you that :"ATTENTION: The Navigation Menu
requires cookies to be enabled to function correctly.".

The fact that I do not like cookies does not mean that I have to be haunted
to death by the popups telling me the same thing over and over and over...
If you put that warning in the red blob at the top of the navigation and
make the information portion non red I will still be "warned" but at least
the website will be functional.

Yes I understand that you REALLY want me to enable cookies abut at the same
time I REALLY, REALLY do not want to enable cookies especially only for a
navigation menu.  I preferred by far your previous single page (if
admittedly huge documentation) than getting a popup every few seconds that
tells me something that I already know.

Please forgive my spewing but it really got up my nose.  (FYI. I design and
implement websites as part of my day job.)

Thank you for you time.  I hope you can fix this easily.

Regards
Jeán van Wyk

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