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Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#151

Post by taftster » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 12:58 PM UTC

tunnuz wrote: post #70

daliusd wrote: post #3

Very good proposal. There are more unicode symbols to choice from: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/geometric_shapes.html Down arrow/triangle: ▼ It is not only matter of resolution but I personally like bigger fonts and have zoomed in HN so triangles look bad: http://i.imgur.com/fpA7N.png

We could use the "pile of poo" ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm ) character for downvote instead!

Site is hacker-newsed / hack-noosed / h-neutered. Try alternatives:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2011/11/17/10238146....

http://chryss.eu/?p=331

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/02/unicode-character-pile-of-po...

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#152

Post by delinka » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:01 PM UTC

mayneack wrote: post #135

obtu wrote: post #103

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500 karma according to this infrequently-updated FAQ: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#karma

As of 3 weeks ago, this is true. I checked mine at 501

Replying beside untog because I'm not permitted to reply to untog.

You don't downvote submissions. You just don't upvote if you don't like it.

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#153

Post by kodisha » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:06 PM UTC

sudonim wrote: post #134

lucaspiller wrote: post #42

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> for a textual site the default font size seems too small. Maybe my eyes are just giving up. ++, although my eyes are giving up, and getting a high resolution / small screen size MBA didn't help.

There are a few Chrome plugins to improve the readability of HN. I personally use Georgify: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...

+1000 for Georgify chrome plugin!

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#154

Post by kodisha » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:06 PM UTC

sudonim wrote: post #134

lucaspiller wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> for a textual site the default font size seems too small. Maybe my eyes are just giving up. ++, although my eyes are giving up, and getting a high resolution / small screen size MBA didn't help.

There are a few Chrome plugins to improve the readability of HN. I personally use Georgify: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...

+1000 for Georgify chrome plugin!

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#155

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:13 PM UTC

lucian1900 wrote: post #130

jrmuizel wrote: post #119

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The rasterization of the Unicode character will be cached in the glyph cache just like the rest of the glyphs, so the GIF is not really any cheaper.

Ok, SVG, character and GIF are better than a bunch of CSS :)

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Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#156

Post by scott_s » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:25 PM UTC

sesqu wrote: post #128

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #102

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I have downvote in this thread but not always. I find the removal of edit, reply and voting privelege at seemingly arbitrary conditions to be very annoying.

Downvoting is disabled for very new comments and for replies to comments you've upvoted, iirc. Editing is disabled after a "reasonable" time. I don't think replying is ever disabled.

New comments have a brief time without a reply link - although you can still get to it by going to the comment itself through the "link" URL. The purpose is to slow down the back-and-forth arguments between two people that become "Nu-huh!" "Yeah-huh!"

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#157

Post by lucian1900 » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:29 PM UTC

hei_zen wrote: post #147

lucian1900 wrote: post #130

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Ok, SVG, character and GIF are better than a bunch of CSS :)

You misunderstood a lot of things. Most importantly that replacing a graphic with a unicode char has something to do with CSS :-)

My original comment is a reply to the suggestion to use a CSS icon.

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#158

Post by JshWright » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:29 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #150

mayneack wrote: post #135

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As of 3 weeks ago, this is true. I checked mine at 501

Anyone know when you get to downvote submissions? I still don't have that yet.

You can flag submissions, you can't downvote them.

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#159

Post by cpdean » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:32 PM UTC

The gif is so offensive to me I have to upvote every article to get rid of it.

Re: HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲

#160

Post by user-id » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 1:33 PM UTC

hei_zen wrote: post #147

lucian1900 wrote: post #130

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Ok, SVG, character and GIF are better than a bunch of CSS :)

You misunderstood a lot of things. Most importantly that replacing a graphic with a unicode char has something to do with CSS :-)

Well, using the :before or :after pseudo-selector and content property is a possibility.