Do you like the current design of python.org?

[Steven D'Aprano]

Peter Otten wrote:

> Did you ever hit the "Socialize" button? Are you eager to see the latest
> tweets when you are reading a PEP? Do you run away screaming from a page
> where nothing moves without you hitting a button? Do you appreciate the
> choice between ten or so links to the documentation?

I dislike the new design of python.org.

The formatting of long text essays get completely mangled towards the bottom
of the page, e.g.:

https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2/descrintro

Many links are broken. When you click on the broken link, it says that it
has been reported and will be fixed, but weeks later it remains broken,
e.g.: 

https://www.python.org/doc/essays/metaclasses/Eiffel.py


It requires Javascript or else basic functionality fails. With Javascript,
basic functionality fails too, but in a much more entertaining and exciting
way, as in "I'm trying to click a button on that menu, why does the screen
keep refreshing and hiding the menu before I can click?".

I'm not terribly impressed by the design or the colour scheme, it's way
too "web 2.0", i.e. simultaneously pretentious and dumbed down.

But most of all, I despise the menus that pop up covering what I am trying
to read the page just because I happened to move the mouse over a button. I
loathe the practice of stuffing content into menus instead of using links
to individual web pages. And I hold nothing but scorn for the fact that the
main page has a slideshow.

But none of that even gets close to the spitting fury I feel when I see
the "Socialise" links. With the possible exception of the link to
http://irc.freenode.net/ which at least has the vague excuse that there is
a #python channel, not that a visitor to the python.org website has any way
to learn this.

Oh, I've just discovered that when you click in the search box, a perfectly
serviceable search box, it automatically expands by about 20%, just
because. Urge to kill rising...

 
> You can probably guess my opinion -- konqueror just crashed on the PEP
> index and for some reason I'm more annoyed about the page than about the
> browser.
> 
> 
> PS: Is there a twitter.com something that I can block to trade black
> friday and cyber monkey sales for a box with a good old error message?

I love konquorer as a file manager, but I've come to the conclusion that
Firefox is the absolute worst web browser available, except for all the
rest. Firefox has a wonderful plugin, No Script, which lets you block
Javascript and other nonsense on a per-site basis.

I love me my No Script. Browsing the web is so painful without it.




-- 
Steven