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The last 6 months have been extremely successful in getting some really unbelievable authors and content published to InsideRIA.com. Feedback to the site and its content has been fantastic and now we am looking for even more community involvement in the direction of InsideRIA. We currently have some really great enhancements to the site in progress but also want to know what you would like to see change.
If you have some ideas on how to make this site even better by addressing new topics or even making changes to the way we do things, here is your chance to speak up. You can contact me directly at rtretola@oreilly.com or simply post your comments below.
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This has become one of my favorite sites. However, I'd really like to see a resources section develop with books and reviews, podcasts, videos, and other web resources.
Thanks for the site.
I would agree with Peter, this site has been one of the primary sources I come to, to see what is new in the field of RIAs. I even recommend it to many developers.
A couple of design issues with the site:
The automated reader is funny to listen to but it should improve its reading of code sections or it should be completely disabled in code sections. It skips over most of the symbols in the code making it quite useless, even for those who have no better alternative. Skipping over curly braces or angled brackets is just a good way of generating syntax errors. Reading curly braces as 'start block' and 'end block' might help but then, how are you supposed to read a string containing HTML tags? I guess there must be specialized readers for code, but until you get one, better leave it off.
I guess that plenty of code is to be expected in this site. With such a big sidebar, there is not much left for the main column. In order to accommodate code in such a narrow column it seems you have reduced the font to a size much, much smaller than the regular text in the same column. If you set the browser to a larger text size, the regular text increases to an absurdly large size. It is not so much a problem of the absolute text size but the large difference in between the regular and code font sizes. Moreover, since one is defined in 'em' units and the other in relative size ('smaller'), they scale differently when you are forced to change the text size in the browser in order to make the code readable and the results across browsers is quite different. 'em' units are reasonably well defined, 'smaller' depends on each browser and how each scales across browsers is also different.
Good points, you have indicated. yes, i agree plenty of code is to be expected in this site. It is not so much a problem of the absolute text size but the large difference in between the regular and code font sizes. No doubt effort is very good and i much appreciate this. orlando flights