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Re: Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

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post #16

This is a really great theme! I love it how even the button clicks are authentic. Some suggestions: 1. To get a real DOS feeling, the number of characters per line should be limited to (exactly) 80, and the font size should be increased accordingly. 2. Links to headers [1] within the document make the browser scroll to the header text itself, rather than the top of the surrounding colored box. 3. This is mostly a "QB…

scaling doesn't work because our screens are different form factors these days. You'd get really fat characters (I've tried it).

2. it's a bug ... I'll fix it

3. sure. it's the microsoft style to be more specific. the manufacturers had their own 'branding' in this sense. I had to pick one of them due to time being a finite resource.

Re: Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

#33
post #7

The blue/yellow/gray was so easy on the eyes.

yes, the fact that I also run http://unreadable.website along with having written this is not-so-much-a-coincidence.

note: A number of the authors seemed to have found out they were listed on that site and increased their contrast. Mission accomplished.

Re: Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

#35

I love this so much. All it needs to be perfect is a bunch of keyboard shortcuts built-in---I really want to be able to use arrow keys to navigate like I'm really in DOS. :-)

that's been a big request in the last wave of popularity (as in 36 hours) ... I'll think about how to do it in a non-awful way.
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