I also normally browse HN zoomed-in and see blurry upvote, but is this really a problem? Does it affect the way you read, vote on and respond to posts?
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#142What's with all the "CSS bad" comments? Who needs CSS to put a Unicode character in a web page? Based on some of the logic I am reading, we'd all be better off displaying every letter of text as GIFs. For a technical crowd, you people have some funny ideas.
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#143we are hackers, not fancy design nerds...
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#144Also, there's a sort of issue of the greyarrow.gif being equilateral, so there's no clear distinction of where does it actually point. I know it "works", but it ain't "clean".
I didn't notice the problem until you mentioned it. For me it was obvious that it points up/down, but now that you mention it I see that it could point in other directions as well.
I guess the question is: Do users get confused about the arrows?
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
This seems like a bad idea, since at small font sizes it will be a similar shape to the up-triangle, especially in fonts which (mostly) fill it in.
♥ and 💩 have a nice symmetry.
yes, a heart and the box with 01f489 look very similar (Firefox on Snow Leopard)
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have downvote in this thread but not always. I find the removal of edit, reply and voting privelege at seemingly arbitrary conditions to be very annoying.
Downvoting is disabled for very new comments and for replies to comments you've upvoted, iirc. Editing is disabled after a "reasonable" time. I don't think replying is ever disabled.
You also can't downvote people that reply to your comments, though you can upvote them.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rasterization of the Unicode character will be cached in the glyph cache just like the rest of the glyphs, so the GIF is not really any cheaper.
Ok, SVG, character and GIF are better than a bunch of CSS :)
You misunderstood a lot of things. Most importantly that replacing a graphic with a unicode char has something to do with CSS :-)
Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲
#148Don't remember if it applies to this particular glyph, but I've had some issues in the past with some configurations of IE and/or Windows, where the unicode symbols wouldn't render. Just something to be aware of, if you're blindly using these in web sites aimed at the general population.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have downvote in this thread but not always. I find the removal of edit, reply and voting privelege at seemingly arbitrary conditions to be very annoying.
Downvoting is disabled for very new comments and for replies to comments you've upvoted, iirc. Editing is disabled after a "reasonable" time. I don't think replying is ever disabled.
Commenting is disabled for the job-ads that are mixed with the stories on the homepage. Maybe thats what pbhjpbhj meant with reply?