Launching low bandwidth (loband) Beta for long haul!

MSDN: Launching low bandwidth (loband) Library Beta for long haul!

Sandcastle — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:34:17 GMT

Please see my post at http://blogs.msdn.com/innovation/archive/2009/03/26/launching-low-bandwidth-loband-beta-for-long-haul.aspx

re: Launching low bandwidth (loband) Beta for long haul!

Peter Ritchie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:51:00 GMT

From what I've seen, it looks good. Nice and fast.

But, shouldn't the landing pages (link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library(loband)) link to loband content, not hiband content? e.g. the MSDN library left navigation area links to no loband content. I have to go to hiband, then click the loband link in the hiband page.

re: Launching low bandwidth (loband) Beta for long haul!

stephbu — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:55:50 GMT

A few thoughts.

1) The "persist low band" link in the top-RHS side needs to be much more prominent since Peter didn't notice it either.

2) The add/edit link for Community Content seems somewhat broke - given there is no Sign-in nor control functionality. e.g.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx#CommunityContent

MSDN Loband Rocks

CraigBlog — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:03:44 GMT

I mentioned MSDN Loband a few months ago . Well, they’ve updated it , and the update kicks some serious

re: Launching low bandwidth (loband) Beta for long haul!

Eriwik — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:29:37 GMT

Really nice! It is much easier to read and navigate than the original MSDN pages. And it works much better in browsers != IE too.

There are two additional features features that I would like, the first one is similar to what you have already done. It would be nice to be able to download an XML version of a page, that would allow me to easier filter the pages and apply my own formatting.

Another feature I would really like is the ability to read whole sections of MSDN as one single page. An example is the "x64 Software Conventions" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7kcdt6fy.aspx) section, while there are a lot of nice information there is usually very little on each page. Also it would be easier if I want to re-read a page since I then would only have to scroll instead of navigating back and forth. An additional benefit would be that I could then print the material and read it offline.

re: Launching low bandwidth (loband) Beta for long haul!

devlinb — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:47:58 GMT

Add a search box and this will become more useful than the main MSDN site. It sure is a lot better on the eyes, and not having to scroll nearly so much is appreciated.

MSDN Library now has a low bandwidth version

Stuff that's in my head — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:44:42 GMT

MSDN Library now has a low bandwidth version

Launching low bandwidth (loband) V1 and new IDE view!

Inside MSDN and TechNet — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:33:41 GMT

The Library Experience (LEX) team is proud to announce the release of low bandwidth (loband) Version