Re:FBI files on Richard Feynman
by allochthon on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @12:56AM
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Sometimes I wonder whether the difficult-to-read PDF-like interfaces are intentionally made hard to use.
Re:FBI files on Richard Feynman
by spacemanmatt on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @07:07AM
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If this were the movie Brazil, I'd have a fresnel lens over my screen to help read that liliputian typeface.
And here I was thinking of congratulating the author on having filed a FOIA request.
Even after reading your comment it took me a minute to figure it out. Probably because I noticed the the first document was 2 pages and saw 2 thumbnails, so immediately assumed it was just the second page.
Thanks for the feedback. Would love to hear about better embedded options. As far as we can tell, they almost all have drawbacks.
> Would love to hear about better embedded options
How about just posting an image of the first page with an href to the raw pdf? I could then simply read the pdf in my browser. The embedding adds nothing.
Funny thing is that they probably have some UI-expert on site.
Probably not, but that document viewer is the product of the DocumentCloud project, which was at one point headed by Jeremy Ashkenas, and from which Underscore and Backbone.js are derived: http://www.documentcloud.org/opensource
However, like most viewers, the DC viewer is best in its standard view, not its embedded view: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/338833-cover-letter.h...
edit: Ttough yes, the thumbnail nav to go between different documents is not great, though that's more an issue of the site implementation...probably this is a landing page for the docs that would presumably be direct-linked to elsewhere
Fantastic UI here.