This will make the upvote triangle look crisp on high-resolution displays. Thanks!
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Like this?
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#3Very good proposal. There are more unicode symbols to choice from: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/geometric_shapes.html
Down arrow/triangle: ▼
It is not only matter of resolution but I personally like bigger fonts and have zoomed in HN so triangles look bad:
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#4It will also look crisp on my normal-resolution display. This website's font is too small for me so I always open it in 150%.
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#5Huh, I didn't know Arc was that good at Unicode. It even renders the flip table emoticon.
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#6Excellent idea! Now if we could only convince w3C that the entire Unicode Symbol Set deserves names and not hex or octal then I'd be very happy indeed ♞ should be bnight and so on...
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#7Or go contentless via CSS triangles:
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#8Yes, this. It will also make the pages render faster. On the homepage alone there are 30 instances of grayarrow.gif.
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#9It will also look crisp on my normal-resolution display. This website's font is too small for me so I always open it in 150%.
Me too. Doesn't it drive you nuts when some sites don't let you resize fonts?
Specifically, look at the Facebook comments on Techcrunch. I can zoom in all I want (command-+) but the comments-font stays tiny.
My eyes are bad.
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#10Yes, this. It will also make the pages render faster. On the homepage alone there are 30 instances of grayarrow.gif.
The image is only loaded once and does not block anything (in fact it's loaded in parallel with — and the same size as — the orange Y logo at the top-left, and the tracking gif).
Furthermore the images on YC have extremely low dynamicity and size, so there's little chance they'll be evicted from the browser's cache (short of a manual cache clear), so their 100 bytes will only be loaded once the first time ever you visit YC.
So no, it won't make pages render faster overall.
On the other hand, it will make pages look better on zoomed or high-DPI displays.