Posted by Els on 05/23/05 12:44

Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>>>From: Leif K-Brooks <eurleif@ecritters.biz>
>>>On the negative side:
>>>- Too crowded
>>
>> I am not meaning to be too critical of your remark here. I understand it.
>> But part of me wants to say: "Ah but it is the crowded, full range of the
>> display that is appealing!" Like going into a nice fruit shop. They fill it
>> up to make it look nice, plentiful, rows and rows of this and that.
>
> Fruit shops may be crowded, but they're still orderly: neat, clean
> looking more-or-less straight rows. On the other hand, the page in
> question doesn't just look crowded; it looks disorderly.
>
> This is a good fruit shop:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>| Apples | Grapes | Avocadoes |
>|oooooooooooooooooooo|....................|00000000000000000000|
>|oooooooooooooooooooo|....................|00000000000000000000|
>|oooooooooooooooooooo|....................|00000000000000000000|
>|oooooooooooooooooooo|....................|00000000000000000000|
>|oooooooooooooooooooo|....................|00000000000000000000|
>|oooooooooooooooooooo|....................|00000000000000000000|
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And this is a bad fruit shop:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>| Apples and grapes and avocadoes |
>|00oo.0o0...ooo00o00ooo0o..o.0.oo.o0oo0.o0o..0o.00.oo0oo.00.00.|
>|00000.0.oooo.o.0.o0..0.0.ooo.o0.0...oo000.00o0o0ooo..o00o0o0oo|
>|o0.0000..o0o..0ooo..0ooo0o..00MoNkEy!!!00....0o.0o0o.oo.000o.o|
>|0o.o..0o....0o0____o000o0.0o0.oo0o.o0.ooooooo0ooo.o.000o00..oo|
>|0.0o.0o0o00o.oo|--|.0o.00..o.00o00.0o.o0oo0.0000..00o...0.0..o|
>|o...o.o0oo00oo0.o.0.0.00.0..oo00000oo.0ooo.0oo.0.....oo00ooo.o|
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

May I just borrow this example to say how much I hate the 'layout' of
the new supermarket here? It looks like this:

(x=vegetable y=another vegetable)

---------------------
|Fruit and Vegetables |
|ooo...oooxxx000yyy...|
| ooo...ooooxxxyyy....|
|ooo...000xxxxxyyy....|
|..ooo000......xxxxooo|
|...oooxxx...xxxxxoooo|
|..oooxxxyyyy00000oooo|
---------------------

The area is smaller than in the other examples, as this is only one
side of a 4 sided isle, and there are 4 (or 6?) isles in the fruit and
veggie section.

When I'm in the supermarket, I want the first example, which is how it
used to be. All different apples on one side of the isle, all citric
fruits on the other side, avocados and grapes on the third isle,
between melons and strawberries...

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