Unfortunately this doesn't make the quality of the reporting any better.
You'll have to wait for CSS4 for that...
Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
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Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#32In past few months or so I've found TC to be unusably slow. I don't know if it's all the ads/tracking/js being loaded but it takes 20 seconds or more for me to be able to actually interact with the page and so I've just stopped reading it. This is a very welcome new way to read it.
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a common opinion, yes. Some users prefer to actually take advantage of their screen width to read more content at a time. It also proves particularly convenient when trying to skim for particular information without reading everything. Part of the justification for using narrow columns relates to the difficulty of finding the starting point of the next line when your eyes jump a large distance to the left. Tha…
>That way, when users hit Ctrl-+ to override a site's smaller-than-the-browser's-default font size, the site will show about the same amount of text on each line, rather than producing narrower lines as the font grows. That is stale 2008 advice. Every browser but ie6 uses zoom to resize pages. Text is resized on ctrl-+ regardless of px vs em. The days of sizing things with em's is long over, and these days it is coun…
Text is resized, but not necessarily content. Also note that that behavior is configurable in several browsers, including Firefox, for people who don't want to have to choose between reasonably sized text and crisp non-fuzzy images.
Also, many browsers that support zooming don't necessarily let that zooming override a size specified in px.
In any case, why would specifying the width of a column of text in em be "counter-productive"?
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#34Wow, this is very cool!
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#35Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#36So basically it's all of TechCrunch's content with none of their ability to make money off it. This'll last long.
It'd be a sort of interesting legal issue if they got sued. Using the name 'tcfast' might be problematic. But what if it was a more general web-based RSS reader that reformatted any RSS feed into pages like this? If that's illegal, where's the line between that and Google Reader?
Google Reader is used for the private consumption of public RSS feeds but this republishes content.
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#37So basically it's all of TechCrunch's content with none of their ability to make money off it. This'll last long.
>all of TechCrunch's content
You forgot the illegally duplicated site designs (company livery, possibly trademark infringement, certainly someone would have a poke at passing off, ...).
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
>That way, when users hit Ctrl-+ to override a site's smaller-than-the-browser's-default font size, the site will show about the same amount of text on each line, rather than producing narrower lines as the font grows. That is stale 2008 advice. Every browser but ie6 uses zoom to resize pages. Text is resized on ctrl-+ regardless of px vs em. The days of sizing things with em's is long over, and these days it is coun…
Text is resized, but not necessarily content. Also note that that behavior is configurable in several browsers, including Firefox, for people who don't want to have to choose between reasonably sized text and crisp non-fuzzy images. Also, many browsers that support zooming don't necessarily let that zooming override a size specified in px. In any case, why would specifying the width of a column of text in em be "coun…
Because relative units are a painful and time consuming to deal with, thus counter-productive. How wide is the element that is 20em wide, that is contained by an element that is 20em wide? Yes, that is a trick question (it depends on the browser, and the css of other elements on the page). How wide is an element that is 200px wide that is contained by an element that is 200px wide? The answer is straightforward - 200px. In terms of CSS these days, 1px != 1 screen pixel.
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#39Great app man, you deserve heaven, and by heaven i mean endless happiness while you are alive
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#40So basically it's all of TechCrunch's content with none of their ability to make money off it. This'll last long.
It's also easy to design a site to load fast without ads or widgets. Redesign TC's site to load fast with the same ads and functionality, and I'll be more impressed.