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Guess its a weird question but does anyone know what the make of propelling pencil is in the photo of their drafting process? I'd be keen to lay my hands on one!
Uh... did github just axe blog comments from all non-drinkup posts?
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No. It's like expecting that when I adjust my seat to fit my leg length, the doors still work. I like the text to be readable without me leaning in and destroying my vision. The fact that I'm forced to override font sizes for usability because sites don't respect my default settings is bad enough. When they break because of it, it becomes terrible design.
+1 on the font size - that's a big problem in particular if you happen to have a large screen. But forcing everything into the same font seems a bit excessive; I've actually seen a couple of sites make really nice use of fonts, and you can still install an extension that turns your page into an "easy reading" mode on a key press. What do you do about fixed width vs proportional fonts?
We should tell them we don't like it instead of just commenting in a HN thread. Tweet them, or something. Bitbucket looks great still.
>generally like the octicons, except (a) some are too detailed, and (b) the colored bkgrds are confusing. (still a fan!)
Then again, I'm pretty sure GitHubbers will be watching this thread. ;)
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I've given it some thought and GitHub should be able to make this more accessible by doing something like this: Notifications Using media queries, serve CSS like this only to screen-like media (i.e. not screen readers): .mini-icon.create:before { content: "\f030"; } .mini-icon span { display: none; } Hopefully they'll adopt something like this, though it wouldn't help people like me who just want a consistent font ac…
I think screen readers actually respect display:none. I believe the preferred solution is to use a large, negative text-indent.
http://www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-9999px-hack-...
Why isn't this SVG? Font icons are only applicable when there is actually an appropriate corresponding Unicode character for the icon, as text is supposed to be selectable/copyable, and display fine (albeit in a different typeface) if I turn off web fonts and have full Unicode coverage. Some of the icons that Github implements are in Unicode, yet they don't even use the characters for those. For an example of when it…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg#Support_for_SVG_in_web_brow...
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No. It's like expecting that when I adjust my seat to fit my leg length, the doors still work. I like the text to be readable without me leaning in and destroying my vision. The fact that I'm forced to override font sizes for usability because sites don't respect my default settings is bad enough. When they break because of it, it becomes terrible design.
+1 on the font size - that's a big problem in particular if you happen to have a large screen. But forcing everything into the same font seems a bit excessive; I've actually seen a couple of sites make really nice use of fonts, and you can still install an extension that turns your page into an "easy reading" mode on a key press. What do you do about fixed width vs proportional fonts?
In my experience, I'd say about 0.5% of pages are fancy demos of things you can do with web-font support, 1% of pages use custom web-fonts but look just fine without them, and 0.1% of pages are like GitHub where they actually require a custom font. Everything else uses some "web safe" font, and often very little care is given to selecting which one. Forcing everything into the same font is an excellent solution for the 98.4% of sites that don't use custom fonts, and an decent solution for 99.4% of sites.
It should be noted that most of the "easy reading mode" extensions only work well for article-type pages, not for sites like Hacker News or Reddit.
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Isn't SVG universal?
It should be but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg#Support_for_SVG_in_web_brow...
Every major current and previous generation browser supports SVG images except IE 8. IE 8 users just wouldn't see the icons - a reasonably graceful degradation.