I visit PHP.net around 20 times a day according to my stats. It's the single most efficient website I know for getting what I need, fast. I do not need more white space on that site. It would not improve my user experience.
Not sure if anyone working on the design / copy is reading this, but I'm wondering why they felt compelled to add "popular" to "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language [...]".
Should people use or be interested in PHP because it's popular? How is this a differentiating feature worth mentioning in the first sentence introducing PHP? (Genuine question, I'm not saying it's wrong for them to call it so)
Also, titling a section "PECL + PEAR" is useless if you don't already know what they are. Why not call it "Extensions & Libraries" or something similarly descriptive and let the acronyms be introduced in the description?
They should really focus on a central library repository, they are alternative out there, but having PHP.net pushing for one (i don't really trust them for creating one) would do a lot of good to the language.
I do like the documentation menu. Similar to the way Codeigniter does it.
Then again, this is still a prototype. Hopefully someone will fix this before switching over.
My only comment is: put the class synopses (?) in a fixed width font (like they are. In the detail section). It looks odd this way.
+1 for being completely usable on my iPad and not breaking the back button while all still being quite snappy.
FWIW I have no issue with the green. Good work, guys.
Green is terrible.
Plus my elePHPant would seem strange in green.
Have you seen PEAR2? http://pear2.php.net/
* The animation (click 'Documentation') is too slow. As likely the most visited link, this needs to be instantaneous.
* The top bar takes too much vertical space.
Horrible, too cluttered.
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PHP has it's place and will have for the foreseeable future. Very low entry bar, huge available workforce, Wordpress and other CMS(and an astronomical number of available plugins and themes) being the main reasons.
Most of the web sites will work fine with a combination Wordpres, some plugins and a readily available themes. Wordpress may not be elegant internally, but it just works and that's what 90% of people need.
My only gripe with PHP is that it's very easy to make a mess out of it(compared to other languages) but then no programming language, no matter how elegant, can save the developer from himself.
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