Foresight Nanotech Institute Logo Image of nano  New Topic Icons
from the your-call-is-important-to-us dept. Are the new textual
topic icons an improvement or an eyesore? Read More for the
reasons behind them, and voice your opinion in the new Poll.
We've gotten some feedback, mostly positive, regarding the
replacement of Nanodot's old clip-art icons with text icons
showing the topic names. (At the same time, we fixed some topics
that had spaces in their topic IDs, which caused links to break
on some browsers [<cough>Netscape].) Our reasons for doing this
were:    • Many of the topics on Nanodot are somewhat abstract
and therefore hard to represent graphically, particularly when
relying (as I have been) on clip-art. (I defy you to find a good
image for "Nanoscale Bulk Technology" in an off-the-shelf clip
art package. :-) Conversely, it was often hard for people to
figure out the topic based on the image I picked, and some
browsers [<cough>Netscape] don't display the <ALT> text when the
mouse rolls over the i