[Ads-l] A quick review of the new OED.com

[James Eric Lawson]

Regarding the OEDO changes, I'm a bit out of my wheelhouse (on this as 
on so many other things), but it seems to do a disservice to their 
audience ("users", whatever). Privileging a tiled and tabbed layout at 
the expense of linear flow interferes with my comprehension of the 
material presented...but I'm a codger steeped in narrative culture, 
although it's true my memory works best by way of discrete visual 
images. Nevertheless, it seems to me the redesign displays some of the 
worst elements of both linear and block layouts.

Other particulars of the changes have advantages and disadvantages that 
I continue to discover with use...I do wonder about the purpose of the 
second ellipsis after the first quote for a sense, although that may be 
the product of a trivial design oversight. I haven't bothered to scour 
the guides for any reasoning underlying that element, because I feel 
that if a hint of reasoning is not immediately discernible it's 
certainly not worth the effort of reading the manual.

-- 
James Eric Lawson

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