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Databases are for Pussies
- Devilboy 17y agoSorry to be offtopic but I tried 2 different browsers and this site is unreadable even when I increase the text size.
- dhotson 17y agoHmm, what browsers/OS are you using? It's using Typekit @font-face for good looking text, Perhaps that's the problem?
- Devilboy 17y agoI'm using Chrome on WinXP. Maybe Vista or 7 is required? Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/poqp7.png http://i.imgur.com/poqp7.png
- yurifury 17y agoCould be AdThwart.
- Devilboy 17y agoI tried disabling AdThwart but it didn't help. It also looks the same in my IE and I don't have any plugins for that browser. I guess it's the lack of fonts in XP.
- viraptor 17y agoIt's not the lack of fonts, as your browser displays the custom font used by that site... just fails to do it correctly. You could try going through readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
- dhotson 17y agoMaybe try turning on ClearType?
- Devilboy 17y agoWe have a winner! That looks great! I feel guilty for derailing this thread now... :(
- chrislloyd 17y agoIf you're on Windows, sorry. Both Firefox and IE have terrible font rendering on that OS which basically munges the font. Try Safari (I've heard that's better). It would be nice if Typekit did fallback rendering for Windows only which basically just used Times New Roman and Helvetica. I, however, don't want to implement this because I suspect you are one of the first people to visit the site on Windows.
- bad_user 17y ago> I suspect you are one of the first people to visit the site on Windows Do you have some stats to go with that?
- chrislloyd 17y agoHa! Yes: http://twitpic.com/1asem0 http://twitpic.com/1asem0 I've had the luxury of writing in splendid isolation :D The one IE user was me checking it out. About 35 of the Safari visitors were me too!
- ErrantX 17y agoUh, all of those browsers could be on Windows....
- dhotson 17y agoOh damn.. so anything using Typekit basically looks awful on Windows? What a shame.. Also, I reckon your site looks fantastic. Just sayin' :-)
- jk 17y agoWinXP and firefox3. The font is Times New Roman and the site is readable (had to increase font size).
- sid0 17y agoFirefox 3 doesn't support font-face.
- bruceboughton 17y agoThat's a shame. It looks beautiful under Chrome on Windows.
- eru 17y agoIt's readable in Chrome under Ubuntu/Xmonad.
- rogermugs 17y agovoted up for best title ever
- dhotson 17y agoJust to get this discussion back on track a bit.. I think it's a great idea to design user interfaces before writing code. I find it really helpful for figuring out what actually needs to be done. Also, sometimes I find that an idea that's easy to express in code is not always as easy to express in a user interface. I have a feeling that this is why the majority of UI's designed by programmers suck.
- bad_user 17y agoTitle sucks as it has nothing to do with its content. Starting with the design is for pussies too ... considering that a mostly static design is really different from the end-result and you won't see the problems with it until you've got real content, this after you've waisted hours and hours on bikeshed issues. Doing contracting work for clients for whom you can't explain that the design they are seeing isn't final and that they should focus more on the actual workflow / functionality ... that's for pussies too :) And speaking of real clients that want to click the kitty ... trust me, they won't appreciate your HTML5 compliant code, or a font that doesn't render well in WinXP.
- melito 17y agoPixii seems broken on OSX (stock ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1). I can't try tyrone :( Not sure where to submit bugs because the article tells me to use thor instead and that pixii isn't maintained.
- chrislloyd 17y agoPushed new version of Tyrone, and finally deleted Pixii!