Honestly the design is a breath of fresh (tropical) air. And the scrolling is sooo smooth.
Replying to comments about our web page design
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#53Reminds me of Lings Cars: https://www.lingscars.com/
Not a niche or hobbyist website, but a genuine car leasing company. Who's owner deliberately styled the site like this to act as a differentiator in a crowded market. It's certainly unique, I'll give them that.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tone of the website has a very tongue-in-cheek tone to me. Taking it seriously is like doing journalism research using The Onion.
How does a person who can’t read the text because of their health issues know that it’s tongue in cheek?
Should the vast majority of the world who do not have those health issues be deprived of its glory, because there is a minority who - very sadly and unfortunately for them - cannot look at it? Should Picasso not have bothered painting since some people are blind? Should Tolstoy not have written War and Peace because some people do not have the reading level to cope with such a complex book? Should Maria Callas not have sung so beautifully because the deaf would never be able to hear her?
If you are there for the content and not the design, then it works fine with a browser like Lynx. Thus all the content is entirely accessible.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tone of the website has a very tongue-in-cheek tone to me. Taking it seriously is like doing journalism research using The Onion.
How does a person who can’t read the text because of their health issues know that it’s tongue in cheek?
Do you actually know someone who can't read the text, or are you concern trolling?
Since you quoted and responded to it, it seems you are in agreement with the site authors. There are 10 themes. do all of them make any one person's eyes bleed?
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#56That's it, I've completed the Internet. This is my new favorite page. The aesthete in me may bristle, but the pragmatist agrees. There are many ergonomic and UX concerns to consider when designing things, but I think they make their case very well and I didn't find it a problem to read at all.
the background distracts too much, but otherwise it's pretty readable.
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#57I've always liked ExoticSilicon's design, but not until this post did I realize their smart bit of CSS for default font size: font-size: min(max(1em, 1.3vw), 1.3em); Which explains why it looks just right on my high-DPI Chromebook even though I haven't configured a big enough default font size for the browser. This is going to be the default font-size for all of my websites now (preceded by a fallback for maximum com…
If you want it to be even more readable you could do the following: font-size: clamp(1em, 1.3vw, 1.3em); I would also consider using `rem` instead of `em` incase you want to use it anywhere other than the root element.
I don't see any issues with this particular code (although for larger sizes, there may be an accessibility issue related to zooming). In general, I would recommend avoiding the use of vw-only units because the computed value may not change with zoom.
I learned this from https://adrianroselli.com/2019/12/responsive-type-and-zoom.h...
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not a grocery store. It’s a niche enthusiast website. It’s supposed to be fun. Many fun things “exclude” people. Sports for instance. Music. Painting. There might be accessible versions. There are also inaccessible ones that trade off artistic expression over other factors. The internet is a big place. There’s room for all of it.
I disagree. There’s no room for inaccessible websites. You don’t have to trade off anything. You can have both artistic expression and accessibility at the same time. For example, the website can make sure that it’s compatible with the browsers’ reader views. Then users can switch to reader view to read the text in simple black and white.
It is accessible - it matches standards and is available in text-only browsers.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does a person who can’t read the text because of their health issues know that it’s tongue in cheek?
Do you actually know someone who can't read the text, or are you concern trolling? Since you quoted and responded to it, it seems you are in agreement with the site authors. There are 10 themes. do all of them make any one person's eyes bleed?
> Do you actually know someone who can't read the text, or are you concern trolling?
The author of that website claims that they’ve seen multiple comments that complain about headaches and eyestrain. This is the first item in the FAQ, which suggests that it’s one of the most common complaints.
> There are 10 themes. do all of them make any one person's eyes bleed?
The theme selector is at the bottom of the page. It’s unlikely that a person who gets a headache/eyestrain from the design will find it in time.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does a person who can’t read the text because of their health issues know that it’s tongue in cheek?
Should the vast majority of the world who do not have those health issues be deprived of its glory, because there is a minority who - very sadly and unfortunately for them - cannot look at it? Should Picasso not have bothered painting since some people are blind? Should Tolstoy not have written War and Peace because some people do not have the reading level to cope with such a complex book? Should Maria Callas not ha…
A website can be designed so that it adapts to the user’s needs. For example, there exist CSS media features that allow websites to honor the user’s preferences for color scheme, reduced motion, and increased contrast, among others.
https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/mediaqueries-5/#mf-user-p...
The website can both have a shrill design and be accessible at the same time.