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

[Grant Barrett]

For me the biggest issue is that the login cookies only last 45 minutes! I
am now signing in many more times a day. I sent an email about it and got a
reply saying that it's for security reasons. It's just me, at home,
working, OED. Nobody is sneaking into my house to look up etymologies on my
user account. GB

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 9:40 AM James Eric Lawson <jel at nventure.com> wrote:

> That's it, thanks. At some point early on, I must've selected the
> display preference to "show all quotations", which leaves the second
> ellipsis as an artifact while still showing all the quotations (FF Ubuntu).
>
> On 7/26/23 04:34, dave at wilton.net wrote:
> >
> > The second ellipsis represents a range of quotes that are not not being
> shown, indicating there are more to be seen if desired. The default is to
> show the first and last quote, leaving it to the user to expand the box and
> see them all.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "James Eric Lawson" <jel at NVENTURE.COM>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 4:37am
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [ADS-L] A quick review of the new OED.com
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
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> James Eric Lawson
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