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Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by abeh »

Very nice to look at, well done.

A couple of points for me are that:

1. While it is easier to read, the combination of the larger size of the text and the vertical spacing makes it harder to scan all the topics quickly, as was possible without this style.

2. as already mentioned, the info sub-text is a bit soft in contrast and hard to read quickly, even though it looks nice. Suggestion: make the important info such as the numbers and username a bit more darker, but leave the repeated info such as 'points by' and 'comments' as they are.

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by itsnotvalid »

ck2 wrote: post #3

Could you make just a stylesheet for Stylish users? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fjnbnpbmkenffdnn...

After seeing the headline I immediately thinks of Stylish (+ Greasemonkey, just to note) as well.

The thing is, if it is just style changes, it is better to be done via Stylish. Extensions, for most of them in chrom(e|ium), would would absolve resources in the system via a separate process. For computers with less memory, running multiple chrome extensions would not be a good idea. Better to run extensions that benefit all sites than just one.

[edit] just went to check whether a new process would be created - in fact, no, since there is no JavaScripts loaded. Please ignore the comment on resource and memory stated above, thanks.

Also as a side note for using that in Firefox 3.6 , it seems that submit button's orange background is not applied like in chrome, so it would be harder to read the text on the button. Someone with Firefox 4 on hand may to see check on that as well.

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by trotsky »

quinndupont wrote: post #38
lwhi wrote: post #31

I like this, but there's a lot of white space .. perhaps too much. Maybe a more compact view would be useful? Like others have said, the grey is too pale. EDIT: It would be nice if the layout made use of columns .. this could provide innovative use of wide-screen resolutions.

I agree, far too much white space.

A bug here: http://img852.imageshack.us/i/hngeorgify.png/# (fixed image link)

The parent post is being shown as a reply to a peer and not the post it actually replied to. Seemed like normal threading until I noticed the reply was older than the grandparent.

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by wewyor »

ck2 wrote: post #3

Could you make just a stylesheet for Stylish users? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fjnbnpbmkenffdnn...

Here is the stylesheet extracted from the chrome extension:

http://pastebin.com/zkzHDSP2

raw: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=zkzHDSP2

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by btipling »

quinndupont wrote: post #38
lwhi wrote: post #31

I like this, but there's a lot of white space .. perhaps too much. Maybe a more compact view would be useful? Like others have said, the grey is too pale. EDIT: It would be nice if the layout made use of columns .. this could provide innovative use of wide-screen resolutions.

I agree, far too much white space.

I disagree. I like the whitespace.

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by tomlin »

I like it. A little off topic, but the Google Chrome Extensions that override CSS get my brain thinking about something like this on a different scale. For instance, could someone build complete Facebook or Twitter face-lifts? If it's possible, the consequences of that permutation would be interesting. Especially now that the modern browsers are moving towards auto-update, which encourages a higher likelihood of something like this taking off.

If marketers starting picking up the idea, I see "shoot here to win the prize", phone number, email address collecting type of ads promising to "bring facebook back the way it was", "just enter your email address and we'll send you the link!" If you don't think this could work, just remember that a few years back people were installing emoticon packs and CometCursor just so they could have a customized, albeit terrible, experience.

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by Diabeetus »

tomlin wrote: post #46

I like it. A little off topic, but the Google Chrome Extensions that override CSS get my brain thinking about something like this on a different scale. For instance, could someone build complete Facebook or Twitter face-lifts? If it's possible, the consequences of that permutation would be interesting. Especially now that the modern browsers are moving towards auto-update, which encourages a higher likelihood of some…

Aren't there chrome plugins that remove facebook ads? I'm not sure if it's done through CSS or some other way, but it seems like something you're describing.

Re: Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

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Post by hammock »

Diabeetus wrote: post #47
tomlin wrote: post #46

I like it. A little off topic, but the Google Chrome Extensions that override CSS get my brain thinking about something like this on a different scale. For instance, could someone build complete Facebook or Twitter face-lifts? If it's possible, the consequences of that permutation would be interesting. Especially now that the modern browsers are moving towards auto-update, which encourages a higher likelihood of some…

Aren't there chrome plugins that remove facebook ads? I'm not sure if it's done through CSS or some other way, but it seems like something you're describing.

Adblock Plus for Firefox removes every ad you could ever think of, even the ads inside of youtube videos.
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