tabs for the new help site

[Jordan Mantha]

* Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> [2006-05-23 23:03:28]:

> Hello all,
> 
> As most of you know, we've implemented some tabs for the new help
> website[1].
> 
> [1] http://help.ubuntu.com/6.06 
> 
> However, Henrik mentioned this evening that they are too big (in terms
> of length), and I agree. The alternative would be to remove the
> codenames (making them 5.10, 6.06 LTS, Community Docs). This would also
> be consistent with the decision which appears to have been taken
> recently to remove all reference to codenames from the distribution[2]

To be honest, the width looks fine to me, but I'd have to defer to the
web professionals as to what too wide would be for most people.

> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CodeNamesToVersionNumbers
> 
> What do people think? Corey is concerned that people may not understand
> the version number, although on the other hand Venkat mentioned that his
> experience is that people looking for help are familiar with the version
> numbers rather than codenames, and I have to say that my (limited)
> experience is similar. 

I'm of the opinion that most people, especially new users, will be very
familiar with the version numbers. I'm seeing them all over the place
now. A few months ago it was a different situation. And after all, [1]
already uses the version number scheme.

> If we can get some kind of consensus on this quickly, it would be good.

Us have a quick consensus? Never! ;-)

-Jordan

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