Has anyone seen this in FF 12? This is one branch that shouldn't have been merged.
Say hello to Octicons
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Re: Say hello to Octicons
#122And goodbye to IE8 it seems.
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#123Guess 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!
It looks like this type: http://www.amazon.com/Alvin-Co-DRAFT-MATIC-PENCIL/dp/B001DKI... But that's just me doing my best to read the side of the pencil in the photo, but it looks like the one!
That is indeed it - thanks a lot!
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's like wanting all cars on the road to be red :)
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.
Sorry but seeing as Chrome remembers which sites you zoomed in on every time you go back to them, font-size isn't a good argument for completely changing the font on websites.
You have to click Cmd-+ once in a while to zoom in on pages that are made by idiots.
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#125Aside from all the issues that were pointed out by everyone, since fonts on Windows are rendered much more sharply than they are on OS X for example, these look absolutely _terrible_ on Windows machines.
Edit: I have also noticed that they have removed the button to see the watchers on a project (it's just a toggle button now). To see that list now you either have to enter the URL directly or go on your dashboard and click on the watchers icon there on whatever project you're looking for.
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#126It doesn't seem to work on firefox 12. Do you know where I can file a bug report? It is painful to look at arbitrary symbols on the site :)
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#127What GitHub needs is a 'like' button, not new icons (so we don't have to `watch` projects we find interesting and want to somehow remember just in case - which results in thousands of commits and pushes (every hour) in our news feed we absolutely don't care about).
Amusingly, it is the same behavior as the Facebook like button, except that Github's feed algorithm doesn't filter out things you likely don't care about.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg#Support_for_SVG_in_web_brow...
Every major current generation browser and last generation browser supports SVG images except IE 8. So IE 8 users just wouldn't see the icons - not a big loss since I suspect IE 8 users make up a tiny amount of the user base.
There are pollyfils to degrade SVG into VML or een flash for ie8, ie7 and ie6.
https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Brow...
I don't mean that it's pretty. I'm just saying that it's possible
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
The redundancy is a little irritating. I could tell what buttons did simply from the text (and they were useful) e.g 'unwatch', 'your fork' etc. Now there's more space taken up with the text and the icon. The icons don't seem to provide additional info in any way. Perhaps that's because Github would like to switch from text to icons eventually (with text+icons in the interim)? I hope not, as it would mean way too man…
> Perhaps that's because Github would like to switch from text to icons eventually? Like Gmail's new icon-only interface? I hope not! It's difficult enough for people to figure out what Gmail's icons represent.
I'm still pissed that Gmail's icon redesign wastes tons of space and is only marginally better when I put it in compact mode. I'm on a 14" laptop here, not all of us are carrying around 22" monitors in our pockets!
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's like wanting all cars on the road to be red :)
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.
I agree wholeheartedly. I have a solution that I've been using for years - a stylesheet that overrides everything. I just got tired of having to adjust to different fonts and color schemes for each website. After years of using computers for 8+ hours a day I have settled on the perfect (for me) combination of color, contrast, font styles and sizes, button styles, link styles, etc., and that's what I want to see. If that's not enough I have a Scriptish script that formats any page to my specification with a keypress.
I actually think this is the future of browsing (at least for people who do a lot of reading in-browser). Books that used non-standard fonts and colors would be laughed at (say, Papyrus on a beige background for body text), but just because it's easy to go wild with websites doesn't mean people should do it.