iPad safari user: for some reason the page doesn't scroll in portrait. When i rotate the device into landscape everything is fine. Odd.
The Guardian digital design style guide
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is news to me. After seeing your comment I went through every menu on chrome and can't find it. Is this actually a thing. Is it just really well hidden or am I just a dummy?
I think it must still be in some level of development/testing for Chrome because it's is very hidden. I just tried these instructions on Chrome desktop version and was able to enable it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3697312/google-chrome-...
I don't use chrome. In Firefox reader mode is an icon in the address bar you can just press. Why would chrome hide it? Unless I'm missing something and you're both talking about something completely different.
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#13Nice style guide, better than most. However, I may never understand why grid systems get the amount of reverence that they do. Although there's a certain necessity in having consistency, I can't help but view grid systems has a sort of pseudoscience. Page 2/7 in this style guide shows examples of many page elements that aren't really consistent with their grid. I've also seen plenty of websites with great designs tha…
Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockmann (https://amzn.to/3Mzt5AB) is my favorite design book, but I just use an 8x8 grid since it became the standard on iOS.
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#14I'd much rather read the daily news as a Bear-style blog, with the addition of categories.
https://herman.bearblog.dev/blog/
One url for the whole day. Oh how I hate the scroll.
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#15A large part of this guide is totally unimportant to me. I don't think I would detect a change in some of these policies. It's probably already changed in the past years, and I've never seen it while reading the Guardian daily. The problem with this focus on design consistency and cosmetic features is that they loose the global view. I pay for the Guardian, and I'm glad to pay for their content, yet I still have to u…
> It's probably already changed in the past years
The Guardian's website has changed very little since 2015 or so[0]. The logo, fonts, and colour palette have evolved in 2018, but the structure, grid, or even the category colours (orange for opinion, blue for sport, etc.) have not changed at all.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150131232757/http://www.thegua...
Re: The Guardian digital design style guide
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it must still be in some level of development/testing for Chrome because it's is very hidden. I just tried these instructions on Chrome desktop version and was able to enable it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3697312/google-chrome-...
I don't use chrome. In Firefox reader mode is an icon in the address bar you can just press. Why would chrome hide it? Unless I'm missing something and you're both talking about something completely different.
It's that same type of feature, but it seems like Chrome is timid about rolling it out fully (possibly because it hides ads).
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#17I will never pay for anything from The Guardian because of their unashamed parrotting of British establishment propaganda during the lead up to the Scottish independence referendum. There was no effort whatsoever to be impartial or even bother representing the truth.
Their Scottish reporting continues in the same vein to this day.
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#18I will never pay for anything from The Guardian because of their unashamed parrotting of British establishment propaganda during the lead up to the Scottish independence referendum. There was no effort whatsoever to be impartial or even bother representing the truth. Their Scottish reporting continues in the same vein to this day.
Similar story with their coverage of Clinton/Sanders during the US primaries. Also the coverage of Corbyn (effectively leading the charge with some very tenuous but oft-repeated accusations of antisemitism). The bias shown on these two issues in particular have been detrimental to the credibility of the Guardian in my opinion.
It seems the Guardian's editorial position has become decidedly centrist/establishment since I first started reading the Guardian Weekly many many years ago. They have long since stopped being the voice of the left. That is unless you subscribe to a left/right schism defined along the lines of identity politics - which helps explain the Guardian's rejection of Sanders in favour of Clinton.
Despite all of that, I do still find it a good source of news and visit the site most days. Aside from the content, the site is very good in my opinion. I'll be taking a closer look at the design style guide for sure.
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#19After reading the headline, for an instant I thought The Guardian was designing chips.
Re: The Guardian digital design style guide
#20I will never pay for anything from The Guardian because of their unashamed parrotting of British establishment propaganda during the lead up to the Scottish independence referendum. There was no effort whatsoever to be impartial or even bother representing the truth. Their Scottish reporting continues in the same vein to this day.
Similar story with their coverage of Clinton/Sanders during the US primaries. Also the coverage of Corbyn (effectively leading the charge with some very tenuous but oft-repeated accusations of antisemitism). The bias shown on these two issues in particular have been detrimental to the credibility of the Guardian in my opinion. It seems the Guardian's editorial position has become decidedly centrist/establishment sinc…
On the Corbyn thing, it was also revealed in the Labour Leaks that the Guardian were colluding with "Blue Labour" and the party's right wing to get those stories published, along with every single disgusting hit piece on Diane Abbott.