P3D Re: NSA web site...

[roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John W Roberts)]

>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 13:34:12 -0700
>From: Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: P3D NSA web site...

>Wow, I finally get my new Stereo World, and find out there is an NSA web
>site... All in the same day! (BTW, how many weeks did you beat me by
>this time George?) ;-)

>Thanks for the tip on the new web site Bill. Took a quick peek around,
>and am thrilled it's out there. It was fun to see the electronic version
>of the Honk Kong article. I can't wait to see it all grow.

I was also very pleased to find out that NSA now has a Web site. It looks
very nice, and I like the content and the links.

>However... I HATE to say anything negative - BUT - a note to whoever is
>creating/maintaining/designing it: The font is a mite on the small side,
>and some screens require an incredibly wide screen... Sorry, but since
>we are amongst friends, and as far as I know it has not been publicly
>announced yet, I figured a bit of constructive criticism can't hurt.
>Hope you think so to! =)

A quick fix that would help enormously would be to take the items that are
now spread diagonally across the screen in artistic fashion, and shift them
all over flush against the left margin. There are several pages that use
the diagonal layout.

For the excerpt from the magazine, I would hesitate to request an option
for cross-mounted viewing. Ordinarily I like having that option on a Web
page (especially with larger, higher-resolution images), since cross-viewing
is relatively independent of screen size but parallel free viewing is highly
dependent on screen size, and since cross-mount allows for higher image
resolution. But since the printed format used by NSA is parallel mount,
conversion to cross mount just for a Web page would mean a lot of extra
work for them, and I don't want to discourage them from providing this
great Web page. I think I'll use a viewer in the future - I *can* free-view
the 4.75" interocular on my screen, but my eyes hurt afterward! :-)

John R


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