[BB] The Manual may look a little different

[Chris is me]

As long as they keep the old one there is no way this could be a problem. This is cool!

[Mark McLeod]

Search doesn't fit in the frame on my screen when running an older Safari/Firefox or IE 8.
Does anyone else have that issue?

I also get an error when attempting to post in the Blog.

[Joe Ross]

In 2003 and 2004, Nate Smith and then Joel J. manually entered the rules into a database similar to this. Chiefdelphi even had a special tag (rule) that would link to the appropriate rule. Hope this works out as well.

[Cyberphil]

After playing with the new layout for a bit I am very pleased. Although you can search PDFs just like this, most people do not know the shortcut for search within a webpage or document (F3 or ctl+F). This will make it much easier for the mediocre computer users out there.

I only say this because I asked a few students on our team to search up a rule and print it out for me one time. They came back a half hour later. I asked them what took so long and they said they could not find it. I then showed them the find function.

Of the links on the right hand side all of the administrative stuff is current but all of the game manual is from last year. Does this bug anybody else?

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by Cyberphil

Of the links on the right hand side all of the administrative stuff is current but all of the game manual is from last year. Does this bug anybody else?

It bugs me. I wish they'd release the game already! Well, maybe release it in 2 weeks after I take the last final exam I'll ever take (again).

[DonRotolo]

I like the format, someone spent some time on it I can see.

Two specific issues I have noticed:

Blue boxes don't have enough of a border around them, the white characters 'leak' into the white background.

The image quality is too low, they are blurred. This may be an artifact of the 2011 manual being only a test, but my old eyes have a hard time with it.

Anyone have ideas on how to offer this feedback to FIRST? I don't want to just e-mail Bill, he's got enough to worry about.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Anyone have ideas on how to offer this feedback to FIRST? I don't want to just e-mail Bill, he's got enough to worry about.

I just noticed the "New Manual Format" forum at the FIRST forums. http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?f=1540

[Phyrxes]

Neat, I was surprised how easy the new format is to read on a mobile device as I was expecting that it would look like garbage and I'd end up just dumping the PDF onto the device like previous years.

Nice Job!

[Billfred]

I tried it on my iPhone today for a bit. Pretty nice--though I'm a little hesitant to dump PDFs (especially for the post-Kickoff crush).

[Trent B]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

As long as they keep the old one there is no way this could be a problem. This is cool!

Exactly, I reckon the servers will crash on kickoff though and for a few days after.