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If the author sees this: please consider changing your color choices. It'd make reading the content you put so much work into producing easier for everyone. I c
by ctvo 10y ago
If the author sees this: please consider changing your color choices. It'd make reading the content you put so much work into producing easier for everyone. I couldn't finish the post. The 90s hacker's lair colors were that offensive.
- T0T0R0 10y agoThe process of weeding out. Sometimes it's better to select against sensitive people.
- tdb7893 10y agoWhy would you select against people reading your article?
- acbabis 10y agoWhy would you select against people with poor vision?
- k__ 10y agoThe green seems a bit harsh, yes. But all in all it is a good page for people with poor vision. No low-contrast and no white background, which are both considered bad on screens.
- acbabis 10y agoYes, the white on black is fine. I checked the #8a7ae2 purple (http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/) and, surprisingly, it passes WCAG AAA guidelines. I say "surprisingly" because it hurts my eyes. I think jumping between the alternating white and purple is what does it.
- T0T0R0 10y agoWhy do you hate freedom?
- tillytal 10y agoWhy would you select against `; drop database prod;?
- nutjob123 10y agoI agree. Its quite distracting. I didn't get through it.
- johnloeber 10y agoNote that it's not so much the grey-on-black that's offensive, but the bright green and dark purple that produce eye strain. If you're going to use a black background, use light pastel colors for your fonts. That's usually a pretty good reading experience.
- pc86 10y agoThis is not what "offensive" means.
- mistercow 10y agoIt's a bit of an older usage than is common today, but it is correct. You'll also find this usage in phrases like "offensive odor".
- TylerE 10y agoThat's exactly what offensive means. adjective 1. causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials. 2. unpleasant or disagreeable to the sense: an offensive odor. 3. repugnant to the moral sense, good taste, or the like; insulting:
- Afton 10y agoWhile I don't doubt that the author could fix this up, you are not helpless either. If you have colour/vision problems it is often worthwhile to install a client-reader bookmarklet or plugin to your browser, which may come along with a host of other benefits (like saving, place-marking, etc).
- throwanem 10y agoOr a bookmarklet like this one: javascript:(function(){function%20R(w){try{var%20d=w.document,j,i,t,T,N,b,r=1,C;for(j=0;t=["object","embed","applet","iframe"][j];++j){T=d.getElementsByTagName(t);for(i=T.length-1;(i+1)&&(N=T[i]);--i)if(j!=3||!R((C=N.contentWindow)?C:N.contentDocument.defaultView)){b=d.createElement("div");b.style.width=N.width;%20b.style.height=N.height;b.innerHTML="<del>"+(j==3?"third-party%20"+t:t)+"</del>";N.parentNode.replaceChild(b,N);}}}catch(E){r=0}return%20r}R(self);var%20i,x;for(i=0;x=frames[i];++i)R(x)})();%20javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='*%20{%20background:%20white%20!%20important;%20color:%20black%20!important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20*%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'");%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();%20javascript:(function(){var%20d=document;%20function%20K(N,w)%20{%20var%20nn%20=%20d.createElement(w),%20C%20=%20N.childNodes,%20i;%20for(i=C.length-1;i>=0;--i)%20nn.insertBefore(C[i],nn.childNodes[0]);%20N.parentNode.replaceChild(nn,N);%20}%20function%20Z(t,w)%20{%20var%20T%20=%20document.getElementsByTagName(t),%20j;%20for%20(j=T.length-1;j>=0;--j)%20K(T[j],w);%20}%20Z("blink",%20"span");%20Z("marquee",%20"div");%20})();%20javascript:(function(){var%20H=["mouseover","mouseout","unload","resize"],o=window.opera;%20if(document.addEventListener/*MOZ*/&&!o)%20for(j%20in%20H)document.addEventListener(H[j],function(e){e.stopPropagation();},true);%20else%20if(window.captureEvents/*NS4*/&&!o)%20{%20document.captureEvents(-1/*ALL*/);for(j%20in%20H)window["on"+H[j]]=null;}%20else/*IE*/%20{function%20R(N){var%20i,x;for(j%20in%20H)if(N["on"+H[j]]/*NOT%20TEXTNODE*/)N["on"+H[j]]=null;for(i=0;x=N.childNodes[i];++i)R(x);}R(document);}})();%20javascript:(function()%20{%20var%20c,%20tID,%20iID;%20tID%20=%20setTimeout(function(){},%200);%20for%20(c=1;%20c<1000%20&&%20c<=tID;%20++c)%20clearTimeout(tID%20-%20c);%20iID%20=%20setInterval(function(){},1000);%20for%20(c=0;%20c<1000%20&&%20c<=iID;%20++c)%20clearInterval(iID%20-%20c);%20})(); which strips out basically all the ill-considered design choices you're likely to find on a page, including best-of-1993 color palettes like that under discussion here. If you don't want to go that route, most modern browsers have a reader function built in, which extracts the page content and displays it with high contrast, a readable font, and no annoyances.
- 01831810109 10y agoYeah, every website needs to be plastered with big Fisher Price[tm] Facebook buttons and have unreadable hipster light-gray-on-white text.
- k__ 10y agoTrue story. I don't know how long it will take us till we finally stop with the white backgrounds...
- magic_beans 10y agoI absolutely agree, but not everyone is gifted with good taste. Try the Instapapr Text bookmarklet!
- khedoros 10y agoI didn't find it offensive. The color scheme isn't that far off from what I prefer for my terminal settings. What would you have preferred the author do differently?
- dingo_bat 10y agoI like the colors a lot. Much easier on the eyes than blinding white with gray text.