[WEB4LIB] Re: New search engine under development

[Broun, Kevin (NIH/NCI)]

Trend or not, that's still a bad design decision. Personally, if I'm using a
monitor with that much resolution, I expect to be able to view multiple
windows, not have to maximize a browser window. And it's bad news from an
accessibility standpoint. 

Instead of trending toward 1024x768, let's hope designers trend toward
XHTML, CSS, and liquid layouts, so their sites become more usable to more
types of users, devices, resolutions, etc. 

Kevin Broun
Senior Web Developer
National Cancer Institute


-----Original Message-----
From: Freeman, Brook J. <freemanb at purdue.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Fri Aug 13 13:28:22 2004
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: New search engine under development

It appears to be designed for 1024x768.  This is not huge.  While
800x600 is still the most commonly designed for size, doing a quick web
search the most recent data I found was from 2001, from that data
1024x768 was the normal web browsing resolution for 33%, 800x600 52%
with most of the rest taken up by higher resolutions.  This was three
years ago, I'm sure the numbers have sifted up significantly since then.
I expect that more and more sites will be designed for 1024.

Brook Freeman

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Vicki Falkland
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:51 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: New search engine under development


this certainly sounds interesting.

however, i think the person who designed their site has the largest
monitor on earth. 
the logo is HUGE (in my browser it takes up 50% of the window!), and i
had to scroll horizontally to read the text <shudder>.

they might be on to something with the technology, but their site made
me wince.

v.




At 08:14 AM 12/08/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>A new startup company in the Kansas City area intends to develop a new 
>kind of search engine, one that would provide "meaningful information 
>in the form of answers" rather than "just a list of indexed web pages":
>
>http://www.kozoru.com/technology.html
>
>Thanks to Tom Peters of TAP Information Services for pointing this out.
>
>Bernie Sloan
>Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of 
>Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 
>213 Champaign, IL  61820
>
>Phone: (217) 333-4895
>Fax:   (217) 265-0454
>E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
>
>
>