I'm interested to see if this gets changed or if it becomes an inside joke at Facebook.
That would be awesome if it became an inside joke!
3px of padding makes all the difference in the world
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#32Love the irony in this sentence:
A site that fixes these problems is a site is being taken care of with the loving attention to detail of someone who can see the difference.
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#33He has a point that many interface designers will appreciate and others rankle at as nit-picking. But I was struck by the irony of this particular observation being made via a blog that uses a body typeface with ever-so-slightly but definitely too-narrow tracking (letter spacing). Or maybe the kerning data is off. I would have it loosening by about 1/200em overall, with the most noticeable improvement becoming appare…
Yes, and his blog’s title uses an ASCII straight quote in lieu of an actual apostrophe.
Before that, Posterous’ default template had tiny, light grey, non-subpixel-antialiased text for body copy. It was excruciatingly hard to read. I never understood that; the point of a blog is to making reading and writing easy, but Posterous only ever cared about the “writing” side of that, it seemed. (This point is further illustrated by the obnoxious headers Posterous blogs had. By far the most visually noisy part of a Posterous post page was the call-to-action at the top: Sign up for Posterous, yourself!)
Actually, Garry, I’m pretty curious about this. What was the reasoning behind that small grey body text? I’m sure I am just being naïve here. Please enlighten me.
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#34Isn't it possible that this is simply a bug? If you happen to have a location when you post a status, it goes under the comment with a padding of 8px above and below. If the location is missing then a default of 8px appear below the status text.
I don't think it makes a difference
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#35I actually like the one more densely packed version. One of the core difference in design of Hacker News and other sites is just density of information. I prefer Hacker News densly packed layout a lot more than other sparse. So I guess it's all matter of opinion rather than absolute truth or one right way.
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#36It must be a really quiet day for this to make the front page! I can't believe I just wasted time reading that.
The author is a YC partner, so it almost automatically gets up-votes for that. (He’s right, but so are you — it’s hardly newsworthy.)
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#37In a time of display resolution variances between 96 and 250+ ppi (slowly coming to big screen too), why are we still talking about fixed pixels instead of relative units?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, the number of users that read his blog vs. the number of users that use Facebook is a little bit different, and the amount of attention that should be devoted to each should vary accordingly.
"His blog" is the template for the entire Posthaven network.
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#39> Can you see how much more crowded the text is in the unfixed version, and how much more balanced it could be?
No way I would have seen that without it having been pointed out. I would have been looking at the actual content.
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#40I have noticed that most flame wars happen over small things; not simply bc they matter, but bc the opinions are so simple that everyone has one.
This is called 'bikeshedding': http://bikeshed.com/ . How do you all like that design?