Would You Prefer This Category Layout?

[AB Editor]

Good afternoon.

After a lot of feedback, it seems many desktop/laptop users would like to be able to see some questions and the latest posts at the same time. We'd like to try and help, so would this be a preferred layout for the category pages?

http://content.theanswerbank.co.uk/images/ABNEWCAT2.png

This would just be desktop, mobile and tablet would look as they do now.

[scorpiojo]

Any chance of the new layout for tablets, Ed? Please?

[Salty]

One thing that bugs me is the difficulty seeing the question and its associated answers at the same time in Q&P. Often the answers refer to a sub-question number and you have to keep scrolling back to the top to find out the related question. I think it would help enormously if the question was held at the top of the screen (in a scrollable window if too large) and the answers then scrolled up and down below but with the question still visible.

The large font size of the new layout exacerbates this problem, as the length of the question/answer list is much longer and needs more scrolling. Reducing the web page zoom to a smaller size helps somewhat, but makes the questions and answers appear in a column in the centre with white space at the sides - the display should adjust to the available screen width.

[AB Editor]

Interesting idea Salty.

[Lie-in King]

Ed - re the missing avatars (p.5, 11:26 Fri 3rd Feb, this thread) - I refreshed Firefox this morning (needed for something else) & the LP avatars are behaving themselves now. Not sure if it was my action or you've done something at your end, but thought you'd like to know.

I'm still only seeing jellyfolk in the answer box, however.

[AB Editor]

Yes, we did fix that (last week we thought).

The answer box avatar is the strange one!

[mccfluff]

i've given up on the mobiel site not, i can't reduce the font size and its just too big

[mccfluff]

and I can't type.... which is AB's fault....

[trt]

Yes please

[Lie-in King]

They weren't behaving first thing this morning, which was why I wondered if the refresh had done it - heigh-ho :-)

Fluff loves triping ;-)

[mccfluff]

and you can bog off :-D

[wiltsman]

'Would You Prefer This Category Layout?'

Yes - much better!

[hereIam]

Probably not the right place for this, but when asking a question why doesn't the question show in the 'Ask' box as it is being typed ???

[Eleena]

Yes from me Ed!

[pastafreak]

I would like a similar layout for tablets as I've quickly fallen out of love with the new layout.