Website bug rundown day 1

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi folks,

Here's the bugs I've seen reported here, on identi.ca, or on IRC. Let me
know if you're aware of any others. We should probably set up another
wiki page. :) AFAIK only one has a ticket.

By the way, thanks to everyone reporting the issues they see. Keep them
coming if you've got them - please try to note your web browser, version
number, screen resolution, and anything else that might be appropriate.
For visual bugs, screenshots are extremely helpful.

Open

• First page load, slideshow 'throws up' over screen. Shift+reload
appears to resolve the issue. Not sure why though. Cached CSS?
• Zoom in at 5x - download button on front page slide disappears
• Turn off JS - weird things happen
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/30
• Green on the downloads pages is too intense green (mattl on identi.ca)
• More spacing on main navbar would be nice if possible (mattl on
identi.ca)
• Typo on get fedora > by format: s/by formats/by format
• Fedoracommunity.org didn't launch, link to it points to plain
index.html
• On the front page [1] displays only English version of countdown
banner (regardless of the language selected), here [2] everything is
fine. (Alexander Smirnov)
• from dbs on identi.ca @fabsh New fedoraproject.org site looks weird on
Chromium on Fedora 13 64-bit for me; fine with Firefox though.
http://imgur.com/mhqjq.png
• identica: @qu1j0t3 ..... http://fedoraproject.org/en/about... // great
start, but too text heavy. refactor
• '¿' character for es is mirrored for some bizarre reason - noticeable
on the front page. A bug with Cantarell? Appears to work fine with
Comfortaa.
• Misc Windows issues, documented here:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-October/008716.html

Difficult to reproduce

• slideshow images not loading at all for Gurhan Ozen, mizmo will try to
reproduce with him

Resolved

• notting ran into a weird issue where the title on the first slide was
rendering much too small. it turned out to be client-side CSS he didn' t
know about - removing it fixed the issue

Future Work Suggestinon

• would be nice to update wiki skin to match new www.fpo
• better panda for 404

Thanks,
~m

[Sijis Aviles]

2010/10/27 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;

>  Hi folks,
>
>  Here's the bugs I've seen reported here, on identi.ca, or on IRC. Let me
>  know if you're aware of any others. We should probably set up another
>  wiki page. :) AFAIK only one has a ticket.
>
>  By the way, thanks to everyone reporting the issues they see. Keep them
>  coming if you've got them - please try to note your web browser, version
>  number, screen resolution, and anything else that might be appropriate.
>  For visual bugs, screenshots are extremely helpful.
>
>  Open
>
>  • First page load, slideshow 'throws up' over screen. Shift+reload
>  appears to resolve the issue. Not sure why though. Cached CSS?
>  • Zoom in at 5x - download button on front page slide disappears
>  • Turn off JS - weird things happen
>  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/30
>  • Green on the downloads pages is too intense green (mattl on identi.ca)
>  • More spacing on main navbar would be nice if possible (mattl on
>  identi.ca)
>  • Typo on get fedora > by format: s/by formats/by format
>  
• Fedoracommunity.org didn't launch, link to it points to plain
>  index.html
>  
• On the front page [1] displays only English version of countdown
>  banner (regardless of the language selected), here [2] everything is
>  fine. (Alexander Smirnov)
>  • from dbs on identi.ca @fabsh New fedoraproject.org site looks weird on
>  Chromium on Fedora 13 64-bit for me; fine with Firefox though.
>  http://imgur.com/mhqjq.png
>  • identica: @qu1j0t3 ..... http://fedoraproject.org/en/about... // great
>  start, but too text heavy. refactor
>  • '¿' character for es is mirrored for some bizarre reason - noticeable
>  on the front page. A bug with Cantarell? Appears to work fine with
>  Comfortaa.
>  • Misc Windows issues, documented here:
>  http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-October/008716.html
>
>  Difficult to reproduce
>
>  • slideshow images not loading at all for Gurhan Ozen, mizmo will try to
>  reproduce with him
>
>  Resolved
>
>  • notting ran into a weird issue where the title on the first slide was
>  rendering much too small. it turned out to be client-side CSS he didn' t
>  know about - removing it fixed the issue
>
>  Future Work Suggestinon
>
>  • would be nice to update wiki skin to match new www.fpo
>  • better panda for 404
>
>  Thanks,
>  ~m
>
>  --
>  websites mailing list
>  websites(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites 

Thank you for putting this together.

• Fedoracommunity.org didn't launch, link to it points to plain
>  index.html
>  
This should be live now. I just checked a few minutes ago.

The other note was on IRC by "ultrav1olet". The main concern was that the
embedded font looked horrible, especially in Windows, and that we should use
that as a alternative font, not as the primary one. The example screenshot
given was: http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5177/fedoraprojectinwindowsx.png

I added all this to a wiki page, so we could track it down (if its not
already in trac).

I'll work on the non-js and fix the typo on the website for Formats tab

Sijis

[Elad]

2010/10/28 Sijis Aviles <sijis(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  2010/10/27 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Here's the bugs I've seen reported here, on identi.ca, or on IRC. Let me
> > know if you're aware of any others. We should probably set up another
> > wiki page. :) AFAIK only one has a ticket.
> >
> > By the way, thanks to everyone reporting the issues they see. Keep them
> > coming if you've got them - please try to note your web browser, version
> > number, screen resolution, and anything else that might be appropriate.
> > For visual bugs, screenshots are extremely helpful.
> >
> > Open
> >
> > • First page load, slideshow 'throws up' over screen. Shift+reload
> > appears to resolve the issue. Not sure why though. Cached CSS?
> > • Zoom in at 5x - download button on front page slide disappears
> > • Turn off JS - weird things happen
> > https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/30
> > • Green on the downloads pages is too intense green (mattl on identi.ca)
> > • More spacing on main navbar would be nice if possible (mattl on
> > identi.ca)
> > • Typo on get fedora > by format: s/by formats/by format
> >
> > • Fedoracommunity.org didn't launch, link to it points to plain
> > index.html
> >
> > • On the front page [1] displays only English version of countdown
> > banner (regardless of the language selected), here [2] everything is
> > fine. (Alexander Smirnov)
> > • from dbs on identi.ca @fabsh New fedoraproject.org site looks weird on
> > Chromium on Fedora 13 64-bit for me; fine with Firefox though.
> > http://imgur.com/mhqjq.png
> > • identica: @qu1j0t3 ..... http://fedoraproject.org/en/about... // great
> > start, but too text heavy. refactor
> > • '¿' character for es is mirrored for some bizarre reason - noticeable
> > on the front page. A bug with Cantarell? Appears to work fine with
> > Comfortaa.
> > • Misc Windows issues, documented here:
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-October/008716.html
> >
> > Difficult to reproduce
> >
> > • slideshow images not loading at all for Gurhan Ozen, mizmo will try to
> > reproduce with him
> >
> > Resolved
> >
> > • notting ran into a weird issue where the title on the first slide was
> > rendering much too small. it turned out to be client-side CSS he didn' t
> > know about - removing it fixed the issue
> >
> > Future Work Suggestinon
> >
> > • would be nice to update wiki skin to match new www.fpo
> > • better panda for 404
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ~m
> >
> > --
> > websites mailing list
> > websites(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
>
>  Thank you for putting this together.
>
> > • Fedoracommunity.org didn't launch, link to it points to plain
> > index.html
>
>  This should be live now. I just checked a few minutes ago.
>
>  The other note was on IRC by "ultrav1olet". The main concern was that the
>  embedded font looked horrible, especially in Windows, and that we should use
>  that as a alternative font, not as the primary one. The example screenshot
>  given was: http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5177/fedoraprojectinwindowsx.png
>
>  I added all this to a wiki page, so we could track it down (if its not
>  already in trac).
>
>  I'll work on the non-js and fix the typo on the website for Formats tab
>
>  Sijis
>
>
>  --
>  websites mailing list
>  websites(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
>  
The Windows font problem is also present in Opera, screenshot attached.

-- 
-Elad.

[Máirín Duffy]

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 21:02 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>  Hi folks,
>  
>  Here's the bugs I've seen reported here, on identi.ca, or on IRC. Let me
>  know if you're aware of any others. We should probably set up another
>  wiki page. :) AFAIK only one has a ticket.
>  
>  By the way, thanks to everyone reporting the issues they see. Keep them
>  coming if you've got them - please try to note your web browser, version
>  number, screen resolution, and anything else that might be appropriate.
>  For visual bugs, screenshots are extremely helpful.
>  
>  Open 
Another issue, tzk mentioned we should link to the translated versions
of the wiki pages linked to in the footer.

~m

[Ville-Pekka Vainio]

One more thing, I think it was already mentioned on this list as well:
The Fedora 14 release counter is always in English on the main page. On
the counter page it appears in the chosen language, in my case Finnish.

-- 
Ville-Pekka Vainio

[Máirín Duffy]

Here's more reported to me overnight:

- from @opensourcegeek 
        @mairin new !fedora website - slides 2 and 3 dont display the
picture on Firefox 3.0.12 (RHEL5)

- from @osamak
        @mairin I dunno if you have noticed, but the tummy.com banner
actually links to fedoraproject.org

- from @hircus
        @mairin !fedora new website looks awesome! one suggestion - use
the UserAgent string to direct to 32/64-bit downloads?

- from Warren Togami

"The font looks a little difficult to read on Windows 7 under IE8,
Firefox and Chrome... just mentioning because the target audience of
that page is likely not existing Linux users."

- From Felix Kaechele

"Yeah, the fonts look ugly even with Fedora (if you have the bytecode
interpreter active in freetype), also the printing layout it not optimal
and your photo of you with your tablet looks odd (because it's mirrored)
Want more? :D But it definitely rocks anyway :D"

- From Marcus Moeller


I think placing links on the images (e.g. on the flag pointing to '100%
Free & Open Source'): instead of text links below would be more useful.
If you really want text links I would link the images, too.

[Jef van Schendel]

>  - from @osamak
>         @mairin I dunno if you have noticed, but the tummy.com banner
>  actually links to fedoraproject.org 
I also noticed this with the InternetX banner.

Jef

[Sijis Aviles]

2010/10/28 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;

>  Here's more reported to me overnight:
>
>  - from @opensourcegeek
>         @mairin new !fedora website - slides 2 and 3 dont display the
>  picture on Firefox 3.0.12 (RHEL5)
>
>  - from @osamak
>         @mairin I dunno if you have noticed, but the tummy.com banner
>  actually links to fedoraproject.org
>
>  - from @hircus
>         @mairin !fedora new website looks awesome! one suggestion - use
>  the UserAgent string to direct to 32/64-bit downloads?
>
>  - from Warren Togami
>
>  "The font looks a little difficult to read on Windows 7 under IE8,
>  Firefox and Chrome... just mentioning because the target audience of
>  that page is likely not existing Linux users."
>
>  - From Felix Kaechele
>
>  "Yeah, the fonts look ugly even with Fedora (if you have the bytecode
>  interpreter active in freetype), also the printing layout it not optimal
>  and your photo of you with your tablet looks odd (because it's mirrored)
>  Want more? :D But it definitely rocks anyway :D"
>
>  - From Marcus Moeller
>
>
>  I think placing links on the images (e.g. on the flag pointing to '100%
>  Free & Open Source'): instead of text links below would be more useful.
>  If you really want text links I would link the images, too.
>
>  --
>  websites mailing list
>  websites(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
>  
I've updated the wiki page to include all these comments.

Here are a few thoughts on these specific comments

>  - from @opensourcegeek
>        @mairin new !fedora website - slides 2 and 3 dont display the
>  picture on Firefox 3.0.12 (RHEL5) 
That's interesting that it happens on FF. I
was able to replicate this issue
with Win XP on IE7 but that should be fixed as of this morning (for IE7, at
least).

>  - from @osamak
>        @mairin I dunno if you have noticed, but the tummy.com banner
>  actually links to fedoraproject.org 
Ouch. Sorry sponsors! I fixed this a little bit
ago. It should be pointing
to the correct link now. A good ol' javascript typo.

>  - from @hircus
>        @mairin !fedora new website looks awesome! one suggestion - use
>  the UserAgent string to direct to 32/64-bit downloads? 
I like this idea very much.
This would truly make it a 'download now'
button.

Sijis