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No, I am not ;) More seriously, are you unhappy with the default layout of developerWorks blogs? What change do you suggest? Not that I am in any way respons

by jfpuget 11y ago

No, I am not ;) More seriously, are you unhappy with the default layout of developerWorks blogs? What change do you suggest? Not that I am in any way responsible for it, but I can certainly pipe your suggestions to the power that be.

oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
On a retina screen, 12px is practically unreadable, particularly in Helvetica Neue, which is quite a light font. To be honest, IBM's site has had tiny fonts for as long as I can remember, they just become more problematic as resolutions increase over time.
- leephillips 11y ago
  I have a retina-class screen and I didn't notice that there was a problem, because I zoomed here as I do for almost all sites.
  - oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
    Maybe I should get into the habit of doing that, then. I've only ever felt the need to do it for one site before (Daring Fireball which uses an unbelievable 11px font!), and I've been put off in the past by the inferior behaviour of zoom as opposed to text size (which now seems to not even be available in Chrome). Minimum font size would be a good workaround if it didn't apply to the developer console, which is pretty crazy.
bonobo3000 11y ago
As long as you're taking suggestions - i would like to see bigger fonts, syntax highlighted code and maybe more color contrast between sidebar/top/comments and the main content.
wyldfire 11y ago
This is a good example of Sayre's Law [1], which I only learned about from another HN post the other day. ;) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
- jfpuget 11y ago
  Lol and thanks. I'll reuse that one for sure!
cglace 11y ago
I'll echo what other posters have said. Larger fonts. Highlight the code samples, maybe even add a subtle background color to them. Less important but annoying, why are the share buttons stacked? It creates about 150px of wasted space.
mkesper 11y ago
Being able to zoom on mobile would be essential (cannot read the whole table on Samsung S3 with Firefox).

by jfpuget 11y ago

oneeyedpigeon 11y ago

On a retina screen, 12px is practically unreadable, particularly in Helvetica Neue, which is quite a light font. To be honest, IBM's site has had tiny fonts for as long as I can remember, they just become more problematic as resolutions increase over time.

leephillips 11y ago
I have a retina-class screen and I didn't notice that there was a problem, because I zoomed here as I do for almost all sites.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
  Maybe I should get into the habit of doing that, then. I've only ever felt the need to do it for one site before (Daring Fireball which uses an unbelievable 11px font!), and I've been put off in the past by the inferior behaviour of zoom as opposed to text size (which now seems to not even be available in Chrome). Minimum font size would be a good workaround if it didn't apply to the developer console, which is pretty crazy.

bonobo3000 11y ago

As long as you're taking suggestions - i would like to see bigger fonts, syntax highlighted code and maybe more color contrast between sidebar/top/comments and the main content.

wyldfire 11y ago

This is a good example of Sayre's Law [1], which I only learned about from another HN post the other day. ;) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

jfpuget 11y ago
Lol and thanks. I'll reuse that one for sure!

cglace 11y ago

I'll echo what other posters have said. Larger fonts. Highlight the code samples, maybe even add a subtle background color to them. Less important but annoying, why are the share buttons stacked? It creates about 150px of wasted space.

mkesper 11y ago

Being able to zoom on mobile would be essential (cannot read the whole table on Samsung S3 with Firefox).