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1) Double tap. 2) Reader mode. There are two excellent solutions built into your browser!
I am literally showing the reader mode view in my screenshot. I know how to work around badly designed websites.
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I dont think you are really bothered by it either given you are discussing this on a website which has exactly the same behavior :)
Nope, HN's CSS accommodates smaller screen sizes [1]: /* mobile device */ @media only screen and (min-width : 300px) and (max-width : 750px) { #hnmain { width: 100%; min-width: 0; } body { padding: 0; margin: 0; width: 100%; } td { height: inherit !important; } .title, .comment { font-size: inherit; } span.pagetop { display: block; margin: 3px 5px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal } Not perfect by any means but a…
It's still small. The widely considered standard size of body copy is 16px or 1rem.
But the thing is, which was my point all along, it doesn't fucking matter.
Good grief, hopefully in v28 Lemay will also throw away the absolute crap that is Liquid glass. Aesthetically it looks horrible, it slows my iPhone 13 — which never before lagged in all its life since iOS 15 – to a maddening crawl. Liquid glass should be taught in design school as an example of what not to do when you design UX. And also in business school as a case of how middle management can fudge up something tha…
> Aesthetically it looks horrible, it slows my iPhone 13 — which never before lagged in all its life since iOS 15 – to a maddening crawl I have an iPhone 13 mini and have not experienced this.
> I don’t know if all the untalented hacks are gone, but the untalented magazine-designer hacks with clout and influence all left with Alan Dye. As usual for Gruber, this is fanboy cope. Dye may be a convenient scapegoat, but he was not a lone wolf, he was operating with the full assent of executive leadership, which is to say, the same leadership that appointed his successor.
It’s important not to forget the (work) politics while looking at the work produced. Unfortunately when you get a politically astute Mad Men (for real, from Ogilvy) in the organization, great damage can be done for a very long time without much recourse. You’ll note Dye was an Ive decision. And you’ll see the successor was not in Dye’s camp. Because (work) politics. From https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job…
Aw. I may have been the only one, but I kind of liked those.
Same, my brain is pretty visually oriented so I kind of like the icons. To be clear I don't really use the icons to pick out a particular item, but they just look nice. It's kind of like pleasant background music in a hotel lobby.
MacOS 27 Beta seems to actually fix a lot of my complaints with Tahoe. I had cynically been believing Apple was simply going to let macOS rot and not fix these major annoyances. (Rather interestingly, menus still have icons if a menu option will simply launch another app, a specific folder that has an icon, or will perform a specific action like a window resize or category sort change that already has an icon you cou…
Good grief, hopefully in v28 Lemay will also throw away the absolute crap that is Liquid glass. Aesthetically it looks horrible, it slows my iPhone 13 — which never before lagged in all its life since iOS 15 – to a maddening crawl. Liquid glass should be taught in design school as an example of what not to do when you design UX. And also in business school as a case of how middle management can fudge up something tha…
I don’t think Liquid Glass is inherently bad. I think Apple’s implementation and overuse of those effects is bad.
* Consistent look across instances
* Consistent look as surrounding content changes
* Contrast is meaningful
* Interactsble elements are not stacked on the z axis
* Animation conveys meaning
You can see evidence that even Apple understands this by the presence of the options to disable many aspects of Liquid Glass living in the accessibility options.
For those that haven’t seen this very well done write up about Tahoe’s use of icons, I would definitely recommend it: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
"On the upside: it’s not that hard anymore to design better than Apple!"
Good one to keep in mind.
I'm happy to see the HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) referenced in the post. I was unaware Apple still maintained such a document? There was a time when TOG's HIG [1] was the Bible for the Mac interface. UI nerds at Apple (and likely elsewhere) would enjoy debating/interpreting them for some project or another. (I don't recall anyone being burned at the stake but there were definitely discussions that could reach a…
Page 12 (PDF p36) seems almost written for the people who did the Tahoe menus
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> Aesthetically it looks horrible, it slows my iPhone 13 — which never before lagged in all its life since iOS 15 – to a maddening crawl I have an iPhone 13 mini and have not experienced this.
Liquid Glass made my 13 mini consistently lock up and overheat. Multiple reboots every day. Ludicrously slow screen repaints. It only stopped with the latest version (26.5).