Things look different around here now!

I almost forgot to mention it! The Open Source Notebook Website look completely different now! Introducing several speed, and page loading time improvements!

Feedback is as usual quite popular. More technical information about the new design follows:

Several speed, and loading time improvements should be the one's you will notice the most! Though visually the most notable changes are the new colors, and the introduction of advertisement.

Gzip compressed delivery of style sheets, scripts, and documents (still working on images!) should now work painlessly for those who accept compression. This should be everyone of you with a browser that is newer than 1998! The compression level should reduce the loading time, and bandwidth spent up to 78%*!

* Average page loading time, and bandwidth use for a session of five page views with a standard cache, and gzip compression enabled browser is 65%, though I recorded up to 78% on some browsers. Graphics disabled during the test as they are currently not compressed.

I also did a little experimenting with using scalable vector graphics only, instead of pixel based images. But sadly the support for SVG where not as good as I expected. I will get back to this when Konqueror 4 ships.

I hope you will all enjoy the new design! As I said, I would love to get some feedback on it from you -the readers!

List of supported Web browsers

KHTML based browsers (including Konqueror 2.5 or newer, Safari 2 or newer, ..,) Gecko 1.5 or newer based browsers (including Flock, Firefox, Camino, Netscape 8-series, ..,) Presto based browsers (including Opera 7 or newer on any platform,) and Internet Explorer 5-, and 6-series, and 7.0 or newer. And probably even more (though untested)!

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Known bugs:
* Commenting form below entries looks screwed in all browsers.
* Some minor font rendering problems on some areas of the site.

All these bugs should be resolved within tomorrow. Keep submitting comments if you have spotted a problem I have missed!

Planed improvements:
* Compressed, cachable, and scalable SVG graphics for SVG capable browsers!! Fallback to JPG/GIF for older browsers.
* Better Creative Commnons license styling on entry pages.
* More visually pleasing header.

These improvements should be in place within next week.

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-02-19 @606.

The known bugs are corrected, and the Website should both look and work good with all supported browsers!

I have added Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 built-in search auto-discovery too! This means those two browsers should be able to auto-detect and utilize the local site search!

SVG support have been discontinued. It is way too much work for a technology that is not supported well enough yet. Sorry!

I will be working on the Creative Commons license styling (and possibly even alter the license?), and a better header tomorrow.

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-02-19 @951.

…worked out a better licensing style! I even changed the license!!

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-02-20 @787.