Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 20:57:43 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, www@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ Message-ID: <19981103205743.A10975@panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <27157.910047915@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 03:05:15PM -0800 References: <27157.910047915@time.cdrom.com>
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On 1998-11-02 15:05:15 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> I hate to sound like an HTML heretic, but might not the use of tables
> make this page and the pages under it far more efficient in their use
> of screen real-estate? Every time I use this resource to look for
> something, I'm struck by how long and yet terse the pages are for the
> bigger categories and I think "gosh, there's just got to be a more
> compact way of supplying this information."
I'm unhappy with the long preface. In lynx you must scroll
to the 3th page to get the search menu and the first ports categories.
Can we move the 2.2.x to 2.2-stable upgrade kits to
another page?
We should also print the short description of
a category, e.g.:
Archivers - Archiving tools (18)
Astro - Astronomical ports (11)
Audio - sound support (45)
[...]
Wolfram
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