Comments on: A new face for Mozilla Links

By: Dope

Dope — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:11:02 +0000

Yep =) Default font size is toooo big

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:07:15 +0000

I like the new look.

You mentioned a few Firefox 3 icons here and there. One of them being the new Subscribe RSS icon you’re using. You should be aware that because of icon updates in nightlies, there are new icons now and that orange and white RSS icon is now blue and white.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:03:33 +0000

I agree that changing the font would greatly help take the “official” edge off the new look. I also think that perhaps changing the background colors for the left and right columns as well as thickening, slightly, the column’s outline would help smooth out the look and make it less dull.

I do love the new logo though.

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:12:00 +0000

Thanks to all for sharing your comments so far. The main concern seems to be serif/sans-serif for post bodies. I am still pondering whether to change it or not, or provide an alternate stylesheet. Would that make it? Please keep providing your feedback.

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:02:22 +0000

Thanks John, I’ll contact you by email to have the logo updated.

By: Paul Kim

Paul Kim — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:37:01 +0000

I like the redesign a _lot_ Percy. Thanks for all you do to keep the news flowing about Mozilla – this design feels really smooth and puts the emphasis squarely on what’s important: your content.

By: Kon

Kon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:40:38 +0000

I really really dislike the serif fonts in the body of the page. They make me not want to read Mozilla Links any more! Please use some sans-serif font for the sake of legibility! Please.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:40:03 +0000

No :(
It looks now pretty sort of “Official” (bah!)

Anyway, GREAT site Percy – Good job

Best regards and Good luck on your way
Simon :)

By: John Slater

John Slater — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:46:39 +0000

Hey Percy. Nice work on the new theme. If you’ve started beta testing the new Mozilla.com site yet, you might have noticed that we have a link to your site from our revised press page…we’ll have to update the logo next to it to match your new look!

By: user

user — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:07:47 +0000

http://img516.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fontsizeci5.png
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/2008040414 Firefox/2.0.0.14

By: Andrew Conkling

Andrew Conkling — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:45:16 +0000

Everyone who’s having trouble on the site (I’m not), how about you run Firefox in a new profile and see if the problem persists? See the MozillaZine wiki for instructions: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode. I suspect everyone just has a tricked-out Firefox. ;)

By: Favorite Browser

Favorite Browser — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:24:31 +0000

Text has no smoothing at all?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:49:04 +0000

I think it looks great! For those of you that don’t like it: give it a chance. Your probably just used to the old layout. I like the new one better

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:59:06 +0000

Nice way to get help. Complain about a user error and then swear at people.

Super!

By: gxg

gxg — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:11:30 +0000

The design looks awful in IE6…
Not my choice of a browser, but I can’t use anything else at my office.

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:56:21 +0000

Great! It’ll take a while to get used to the change, but change is always nice!

By: Chengings

Chengings — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:33:58 +0000

Happy new theme.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:59:52 +0000

I really do not like the new look. It gives the feel of some sort of technical journal and so is not at all welcoming to the more casual reader or even the “semi formal” reader. If I Stumbled on to this site I would promptly Stumble out. I’m not here to flame the site but I believe its important to give my feedback.

By: Andrew Conkling

Andrew Conkling — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:20:42 +0000

I, for one, like it. I went with a similar minimalism on my blog: http://andrewski.net. But there are a lot of dissenters here; Percy, maybe your next post should be about how to force your own fonts and otherwise how to troubleshoot problems in your Firefox? (Yes, I’m looking at you, Martin. ;)

By: Francois Botha

Francois Botha — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:04:34 +0000

Sorry, don’t like it… reminds me too much of http://www.nytimes.com

By: Rafael Masoni

Rafael Masoni — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:54:23 +0000

Oh noes!
Sorry, I don’t like it. I feel totally lost.
But well, you’ve got the content ;)
And the text resizing isn’t really working and I don’t know why. I’ve tried both menu and hotkeys (Ctrl++, Ctrl+-) and nothing happened. Firefox 2.0.0.14 here.

By: user

user — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:33:50 +0000

i don’t know about *zoom level* but same here –> “the default size is too big”

however, there’s always stylish

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:33:06 +0000

It was also broken at the old layout. I think it’s broken for almost 4-5 weeks now…

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:21:53 +0000

Just tried text zoom in and out with Firefox 2.0.0.14 and it properly scales up and down. No idea on what may be wrong with your setup and your politeness really helps me not to care. Cheers!

By: Percy

Percy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:16:41 +0000

Do you know if it’s been working recently? I looked up and my only guess is that the microsummaries plugin may be outdated for WP 2.5. I will keep looking into it. Thanks for letting me know.