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Opaque writing is a pet peeve of mine as well. It seems to be a particularly strong vice of British academic authors. I tend to favour American texts as a resul
by marrs 11y ago
Opaque writing is a pet peeve of mine as well. It seems to be a particularly strong vice of British academic authors. I tend to favour American texts as a result.
I hope the emoji example doesn't catch on though. I found the example in that article harder to understand than the opaque version.
- toothbrush 11y ago> I hope the emoji example doesn't catch on though. I found the example in that article harder to understand than the opaque version. I hope so too, but for different reasons. Because loading of exotic fonts is of dubious safety [can't find a reasonable citation] and i'm a tinfoil hatter [no citation needed], i've turned off CSS remote fonts, leaving me with the following rendition of the emoji example :p https://imgur.com/IDgpNKI https://imgur.com/IDgpNKI
- chrisseaton 11y agoPeople who use emoji generally aren't using CSS remote fonts, so that isn't your problem. Emoji is part of the Unicode standard, so most modern system fonts support it by default. If you can't see the emoji then the problem is your system has out of date fonts, not that remote fonts are turned off.
- toothbrush 11y agoInteresting! Indeed when i tried the URL in a random not-locked-down browser, i had the same issue :). Thanks for the tip, i'll look into that then.
- dagw 11y agoIt seems to be a particularly strong vice of British academic authors. I tend to favour American texts as a result. Funny. At least at the university textbook level I tend to find that US books cost twice as much, have 3-4 times the page count and cover half the topics compared to UK books.