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Re: Such container

#11

Post by wfn »

ohitsdom wrote: post #9
afandian wrote: post #2

This is a subject I really want to know about. But the presentation of this this page is (no better word for it) obnoxious. I wonder why the author did it. Annoyingly the 'reader' feature of Safari doesn't work on this page.

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I really can't see past Comic Sans to read the actual content.

Some websites seem to use Comic Sans in particular so that folks just looking for form would go away: http://www.libressl.org/ (OpenBSD's OpenSSL fork) ;)

edit oh no, it seems LibreSSL changed the font! :( But I quite remember it being different (or perhaps it was another website related to the OpenBSD foundation)

Re: Such container

#12

Post by littlewing »

afandian wrote: post #2

This is a subject I really want to know about. But the presentation of this this page is (no better word for it) obnoxious. I wonder why the author did it. Annoyingly the 'reader' feature of Safari doesn't work on this page.

Comic Sans is an awesome font. People act like it is an attack on their eyes, but harder to read fonts make information easier to retain: http://www.futurity.org/hard-to-read-fonts-easier-to-retain/

A quote from that: "Those who read about the aliens in an easy-to-read font (16-point Arial pure black) answered correctly 72.8 percent of the time, compared to 86.5 percent of those who reviewed the material in hard-to-read fonts (12-point Comic Sans MS or Bondoni MT in a lighter shade)."

Re: Such container

#13

Post by andreasvc »

ohitsdom wrote: post #9
afandian wrote: post #2

This is a subject I really want to know about. But the presentation of this this page is (no better word for it) obnoxious. I wonder why the author did it. Annoyingly the 'reader' feature of Safari doesn't work on this page.

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I really can't see past Comic Sans to read the actual content.

My advice: simply remove Comic Sans from your computer.

Re: Such container

#14

Post by icebraining »

wfn wrote: post #11
ohitsdom wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I really can't see past Comic Sans to read the actual content.

Some websites seem to use Comic Sans in particular so that folks just looking for form would go away: http://www.libressl.org/ (OpenBSD's OpenSSL fork) ;) edit oh no, it seems LibreSSL changed the font! :( But I quite remember it being different (or perhaps it was another website related to the OpenBSD foundation)

They use it in their papers: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00001.html

Re: Such container

#15

Post by jbb555 »

I like this, I thought containers were just some stupid fad of the day. But this explains what they are and makes me thinks ahhhh! Of couse they will still be overused and so on :)

Re: Such container

#16

Post by dijit »

Guys, you know you can change the font right?

in chrome, right click on page->inspect element-> uncheck font-family.

this is pretty good, I've always thought that docker is solving an education problem but fixing the education part is a better thing that 'just use docker' since not understanding a system can be very problematic in future.

Re: Such container

#17

Post by benihana »

This would have been so much more enjoyable if the text hadn't been comic sans and some stupid meme that my grandmother still says to me wasn't shoehorned in.

Re: Such container

#20

Post by toxican »

littlewing wrote: post #12
afandian wrote: post #2

This is a subject I really want to know about. But the presentation of this this page is (no better word for it) obnoxious. I wonder why the author did it. Annoyingly the 'reader' feature of Safari doesn't work on this page.

Comic Sans is an awesome font. People act like it is an attack on their eyes, but harder to read fonts make information easier to retain: http://www.futurity.org/hard-to-read-fonts-easier-to-retain/ A quote from that: "Those who read about the aliens in an easy-to-read font (16-point Arial pure black) answered correctly 72.8 percent of the time, compared to 86.5 percent of those who reviewed the material in hard-to-r…

It's not hard to read though. It's just overused, misused, and only serves to annoy typograpy nerds
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