[mb-users] A Call For Feedback - "StructuredXHTML" branch

[Oliver Charles]

Hello everyone!

A quick overview for those who aren't familiar with my branch. I  
originally planned to submit a couple of patches to make some pages  
of MusicBrainz validate, because they had some little bugs like an  
image tag without an alt attribute, but as I looked through the code  
I felt the HTML structure could be a LOT better. So, I started work  
hacking away, and got my own branch to work in, and have been working  
away for a while on this now.

I'm going for a general 1:1 copy of the site, but also making sure it  
is as fluid as possible. By this, I mean that if I increase the text  
size a lot, the layout should still hold together, which helps make  
the site more accesible to users, maybe those hard of sight - and  
I've also tried to make sure that it's as accessible as possible to  
screen readers (but this still needs more work).

After some discussions with luks, he suggested that I should work in  
smaller chunks, and merging them into the trunk as I go, rather than  
re-formatting the entire site with one massive commit, that wouldn't  
be merged cleanly.

As such, I'm looking for some feedback from everyone! I've including  
some links to pages that I've reworked below, and if you could visit  
them and let me know any bugs or ideas for improvement, I'd really  
appreciate it. Stuff I'm interesting to hear are things like... font  
sizes too small in some places, colors make text unreadable, any  
layout bugs, etc.

Please include details of your browser and it's version, and then I  
can do my best to replicate the bug. Feel free to include an image,  
I'll certainly find this helpful :)

Without furthor ado, the pages I've have reworked:

http://musical.raccoonz.net - The main homepage, should let you get  
an idea of what the new site will look like (not much different)
http://musical.raccoonz.net/search.html - The search portal
http://musical.raccoonz.net/search/external.html - External searches
http://musical.raccoonz.net/browseartists.html - Browse artists  
(please try edge cases, such as the last page. I did have some bugs  
with this earlier!)
http://musical.raccoonz.net/browsevarious.html - Browse releases
http://musical.raccoonz.net/browselabels.html - Browse labels

Not much so far, but if I could get feedback on these, and get as  
many people to agree on them as possible, I can get the bugs down,  
and start merging it into the trunk when we're ready :) I'm around in  
IRC most of the time, so if you wanted to talk with me and get me to  
mock some ideas up, etc - I'm there!


Thanks for reading, I'll shut up now :)
- Ollie / aCiD2

Oh, and a final note - while the website should stay up, it may  
occasionally have database connection problems, as my database runs  
on a little server setup in my bedroom wardrobe... But keep trying,  
it should come back up eventually.

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