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Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by AlexandrB »

zagrebian wrote: post #59
hgsgm wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

So the answer is no, you don't know anyone who can't read the text.

People post all kind of things online, especially hyperbole. As one of the other FAQ questions notes a lot of people also complain about their eyes bleeding, but this has never actually happened.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by ricardobayes »

midenginedcoupe wrote: post #53

Reminds 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.

Wow that average time to respond timer is nice, wish more sites did that.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by prmoustache »

ryandrake wrote: post #73

Call me old fashioned, but web sites that overdo the CSS and assert a strong design opinion just kind of annoy me now. I wish we could go back to a WWW where the browser was the user agent and the user was the authority on text size, font face, colors and so on. Browsers have devolved from applications allowing users to browse hyperTEXT into these free-for-all canvases for web designers’ creativity. Technically this…

> I wish we could go back to a WWW where the browser was the user agent and the user was the authority on text size, font face, colors and so on.

This is still the case.

Your browser allows you to choose which font and size you want to use, as well as editing the css loaded on a tab and most browsers have extensions available to automatically load the css of your choice for a particular site.

The fact is that you choose not to use that freedom.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by paulcole »

AstixAndBelix wrote: post #12

>progressive nothing progressive about this design. just call yourself peculiar instead of giving this veneer of betterment

> just call yourself peculiar instead of giving this veneer of betterment

A leader in the clubhouse for the Accidental HN Slogan of the Year award.

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by camgunz »

kevincox wrote: post #77
blowski wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect they would reply with "resize your browser window".

This is shockingly common but do these people resize their window for every site they visit? Or they keep the window narrow and then sites with side navigation need to put it somewhere else? Having a large window should be telling the site "you have this space, make the best of it". Maybe it would be nice to have a built-in CSS property for "desired reading text width" but I think most people can pick a number and it…

I'm one of those non-fullscreen browser (and most things in general, other than vim) window people.

> Having a large window should be telling the site "you have this space, make the best of it"

I 100% agree but I interpret this in reverse: if I made my browser window gigantic I expect you to use it. If I make my browser window small I expect you to responsively shrink.

The reason this doesn't happen is that it's pretty hard to build layouts that work across all these different screen sizes. That's generally why you get mobile/tablet/1600x900 desktop layouts and that's it.

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I suspect this is another consequence of the app vs. text tension on the web. Apps are great to fullscreen: you want Spotify or Figma to take up the whole window. You don't want a single sentence to unfurl entirely horizontally. But there's no way to say, "I'm the kind of user who sets the browser window size to as much as you can use, so use it all" or "I'm the kind of user who wants you to center your text elements and take up at most 1600px of space even when my browser window is using 3800px."

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by pell »

tpowell wrote: post #6

If you enjoy a bit of well-done nostalgia, I suggest giving vacation.inc [1] a try, too (same guys from poolsuite.net [2]). [1] https://www.vacation.inc [2] https://poolsuite.net

Big fan of Poolsuite!

Another one is here: https://www.vistaserv.net/

The font rendering is especially impressive to me. You can read more about it here: https://www.vistaserv.net/blog/90s-fonts-modern-browsers

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by philistine »

kevincox wrote: post #77
blowski wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect they would reply with "resize your browser window".

This is shockingly common but do these people resize their window for every site they visit? Or they keep the window narrow and then sites with side navigation need to put it somewhere else? Having a large window should be telling the site "you have this space, make the best of it". Maybe it would be nice to have a built-in CSS property for "desired reading text width" but I think most people can pick a number and it…

Are you perhaps a Windows user accustomed to maximized windows only?

Re: Replying to comments about our web page design

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Post by blowski »

kevincox wrote: post #77
blowski wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect they would reply with "resize your browser window".

This is shockingly common but do these people resize their window for every site they visit? Or they keep the window narrow and then sites with side navigation need to put it somewhere else? Having a large window should be telling the site "you have this space, make the best of it". Maybe it would be nice to have a built-in CSS property for "desired reading text width" but I think most people can pick a number and it…

I don't resize for every window, but I'm also not bothered about having to resize it if and when it makes sense. It takes longer type in a domain name, so it's hardly a big deal.
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