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What a neat idea, almost surprised I haven't seen something like it before. I get that for print it's historically been best to just stick with black text on a

• gnicholas 6y ago
  > I feel like this kind of technology should've been able to exist in the 90s. Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works, has talked about the possibility that there have been any notable innovations that ‘came too late’. In particular, he talks about the wheeled suitcase, which at first glance seems to have come decades too late. But he ultimately concludes that the weight that would have been added by metal wheels and enclosures were unnecessary at previous times, when airports were much smaller. As far as I know, he doesn’t have any other candidates for technologies that came too late. But I think that this the BeeLine technology could fit the bill.
• fragmede 6y ago
  And it did, just not for newspaper reading (which was arguably still nascent in the 90's). Programmers have been using syntax-based coloring since approximately when there were color terminals. (Fun fact: you can setup colored man pages, which greatly improves readability imo.) That the web has been a step backwards for client side design is lamentable, if expected. User-side CSS was supposed to set us free. But I don't recall the last time I did that for a site, unless you use reader-mode.