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• nowayout99 - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Also, the dark gray for the search field is also unattractive. Please go with a more neutral gray.

• Visual - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  it looked really broken to me too
  but after a full refersh from server it came to its senses :p
  i guess it was just some cached css
  
  doesn't look bad now that i have it right, but the first impression really terrified me.
  
  a minor nitpick - i don't like how the separators between articles "hang", don't go all the way to the borders of the column.
  
  i'm gonna miss the dailytech stories bit from the center column perhaps... but you can just merge them with the dailytech news to the right. i never thought the division between stories and news made much sense anyway.
  
  the digg and del.icio.us links work with javascript onclick handlers instead of standard href, so won't work if someone has javascript disabled, or tries to open them in new tab, new window, copies them or bookmarks them.
  
  having the comments under the articles, each part with its own paging, seems kinda clumsy. will lead to lots of wasted bandwidth for sure, fetching a whole page of comments over and over as one browses the article pages. and it's not even implemented quite right - the links to the next page of the article don't have the comments page parameter so comments get reset to page 1 each time you advance a page in the article.

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Thanks for the comments - quick question for you: I agree that the comments inline on the articles looks strange (we'll probably just reserve that for blogs), but what if clicking the comments link took you to a page with the article title, description and image then a listing of the comments (without a popup window). Would that work?
  
  Take care,
  Anand

• Visual - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - link

  even comments under the article could be fine, if done right - maybe loaded with ajax only when the user clicks show comments, not every time...
  
  but the way you describe it would be better, and not require javascript/ajax/otherfunkystuff
  and yes, make the link to the comments page a normal link that users can open in the same tab or new tab or new window, not a javascript popup like it was before.
  

• crimson117 - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Anand,
  
  Perhaps only include comments on the final page, which is usually the conclusion where you'd want readers to start commenting.

• westcamo - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Im using firefox and it looks great, ive been falling anand for i dunno how many years, you guys were really due for a update good job guys! i approve

• Zurtex - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  It's harder to see what I'm trying to find, especially this pop up window stuff :/. It also mucks the way Firefox 3's new password manager works, though I dunno I'll report it as a bug anyways.
  
  Also it's harder to navigate around the flash adverts, can't averts just be at the side or at the top of a web page? They're really starting to irritate me on how I have to move over them to get from reviews to news...

• Zurtex - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  P.S, Javascript links are the worst for a browser like me who wants to open everything in in a new tab :(.

• Guuts - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  Agree here... it's very annoying trying to open something in a new tab/window and not have it work. :-(

• Guuts - Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - link

  And where are the "Top Stories" from DailyTech? I know I can access them from the "Latest News..." link, but it used to be so easy to scan across the top of the old layout to see if there was any new articles, top stories, and DailyTech News in one quick glance.