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Re: Fluin: Like a cross between IM and a Forum

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Post by jbrennan »

ollerac wrote: post #18
jbrennan wrote: post #15

Why not put Helvetica before Arial in your stylesheet? Mac/iOS/Galaxy tab users will see better typography, and nothing will change for everyone else. Other than that, super cool concept!

http://minimali.st/2010/03/helvetica-and-arial-font-stack/

I would argue "a large percentage of Windows users" do not have Helvetica installed as a system font (CS fonts are not used for web rendering unless you also install them as system fonts), and I would argue Arial looks bad no matter which platform it is rendered on :).

Re: Fluin: Like a cross between IM and a Forum

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Post by nbpoole »

fluin wrote: post #20
nbpoole wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And another: http://bit.ly/eN40yI Edit: Using a bit.ly link, since HN's URL parser is leaving out the closing ].

but that doesn't work?

It does. If you look closely, you'll see that HN's URL parser ignored the ] at the end of the URL. If you click on the URL and then add a ] to the end of it, your JSON will be valid and you'll see two alert boxes.

Edit: But yeah, my bad for not noticing that earlier. I've swapped it out for a bit.ly link now, so it works properly. I'm headed to sleep. :)

Re: Fluin: Like a cross between IM and a Forum

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Post by fluin »

nbpoole wrote: post #22
fluin wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

but that doesn't work?

It does. If you look closely, you'll see that HN's URL parser ignored the ] at the end of the URL. If you click on the URL and then add a ] to the end of it, your JSON will be valid and you'll see two alert boxes. Edit: But yeah, my bad for not noticing that earlier. I've swapped it out for a bit.ly link now, so it works properly. I'm headed to sleep. :)

It shouldn't affect the feed though (at least it doesn't seem like it)

Re: Fluin: Like a cross between IM and a Forum

#27

Post by jarin »

jbrennan wrote: post #21
ollerac wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://minimali.st/2010/03/helvetica-and-arial-font-stack/

I would argue "a large percentage of Windows users" do not have Helvetica installed as a system font (CS fonts are not used for web rendering unless you also install them as system fonts), and I would argue Arial looks bad no matter which platform it is rendered on :).

Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif
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