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Feel free to post some Emacs packages that provide what he's asking for. Your first post just dismissed him as a "typical designer" and focused only on the word ugly.
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Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?
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Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?
#52Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
When a page sears my optic nerves, I find it easiest to just disable its styles.
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#53Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
If you happen to be on a mac, control-option-command-8 is your friend. Also, the readability bookmarklet does wonders for the appearance of sites like these. (And thanks to the people on HN who originally introduced me to these)
wow, i've never seen that before, thanks!
Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?
#54Sounds like some people still haven't learned NetBeans or Eclipse.
Takes some time getting used to, -just like vim or emacs, but once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts you get everything the author asked for. No mouse needed: check, fuzzy search: check, paths: check, metadata: check, beautiful: check
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No. It's a terrible webpage design. Am I the only one who still values things like http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html ?
Yes. The "user's don't scroll" meme has been confirmed as a myth.
"confirmed" by who? every blog post I see titled "the fold is a myths" follows the same path where there author lays out a bunch of opinion of why they think it is "honestly people scroll fine, honest"
every empirical study (like the one linked) seems to confirm that there is an obvious bias towards content above the fold.
Dont think its particularly important here, I was pretty impressed by his design and not everyone needs to stick to strict usability constraints, but still handy to know what they are.
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#56Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
The site and the god awful grid background image (appears on doubleclick) was enough to inspire me to make a new bookmarklet. My first impression, article aside, was that the site made baby Jesus cry. Edit: In retrospect I think it was the combination of the orange and the grid background (I have a tendency to doubleclick on everything) that really put it over the edge for me, the main design isn't terrible.
I think the background grid is just supposed to be an aid to align things properly when they're creating the content, and not really meant for readers to see.
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The site and the god awful grid background image (appears on doubleclick) was enough to inspire me to make a new bookmarklet. My first impression, article aside, was that the site made baby Jesus cry. Edit: In retrospect I think it was the combination of the orange and the grid background (I have a tendency to doubleclick on everything) that really put it over the edge for me, the main design isn't terrible.
What I can't understand is: why would you double-click a webpage?
To select a word. For example I double-clicked to select 'TextMate', so you search and find out what it is. Turns out it's a Mac text editor.
Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?
#58Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
If you happen to be on a mac, control-option-command-8 is your friend. Also, the readability bookmarklet does wonders for the appearance of sites like these. (And thanks to the people on HN who originally introduced me to these)
control-option-command-8 is your friend
Ditto for if you go to Best Buy or any other non Apple store that sells Macs. They never know about this delightful key combo.
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What I can't understand is: why would you double-click a webpage?
I doubleclick text and blank areas constantly I realize this probably drives people insane, but while I'm reading a paragraph I will keep doubleclicking to select and deselect the text over and over. Somehow it helps my concentration.. I do this with code as well. That's why I have bookmarklets to disable the dictionary lookups and other what I consider annoyances on sites that implement those features on doubleclick…
I do this as well.
I do it so, when my attention gets diverted, I can quickly start from where I left off since it'll be highlighted. The obsessive clicking is because I'm obsessive.
Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?
#60Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
I wish I could say yes. I found the color scheme interesting and a nice refreshing change from "Everyone's Posterous."
But I guess there are people who will complain about anything that is different. The slight irony of posting a complaint against orange while you were surely looking at a band of electric orange is not lost on me.
(At least, I assume you're with orange. Has pg lifted the karma restriction from the custom color preference?)