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Why the fuck make a tech web page unreadable with CRT effects? Thank god, there is reader mode in Firefox.
by froh42 2mo ago
Why the fuck make a tech web page unreadable with CRT effects? Thank god, there is reader mode in Firefox.
- ubercore 2mo agoEveryone says they want the weird more personal internet back, then this is what we get when someone does a weird internet thing!
- mister_mort 2mo agoI think they could get a close-enough effect by removing the horizontal lines on the text glyphs themselves. This would still keep the colorscheme and slight glow, but drastically improve readability.
- seritools 2mo agoon my screen it's the opposite: the glow makes it look like i didn't clean my glasses for a month, disabling that `text-shadow` makes it readable, and the slight scanline effect is nice
- pjmlp 2mo agoI want my blink tag back! With flowers and co falling down the page, and everything else that use to be in Geocities, Hi5 and MySpace. /s
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- arethuza 2mo agoI actually find it quite readable - YMMV.
- sph 2mo agoThen, with all due respect, you should not be anywhere near the design or evaluation of accessible systems. There's people reading this blog with all types of devices, screens, lighting and range of visual acuity. Even if you're blessed with perfect vision and excellent displays, it should be obvious that readability has been lowered for no obvious reason. The point of a blog is for people to read it, so it fails at its foremost job.
- arethuza 2mo agoI wasn't saying that I thought it should be adopted as a standard for others to follow - just that (somewhat weirdly) I personally find the code segments on that page quite easy to read.
- rz2k 2mo agoIt must depend on what you’re using to read it. It’s also readable for me on an OLED iPad, and gives me ideas about what I actually want when I wish I could turn the contrast down while reading it with low ambient light. Bringing the brightness levels of the background and text closer together doesn’t ever seem to work, but being able to add a slight blurry dropshadow behind behind each character might be a way to reduce the artifacts OLEDs seem to create when my eyes are tired.
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- QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago“everyone has reader mode” is I guess freeing?
- layer8 2mo agoMight as well give up on CSS and just use brutalist HTML in that case.
- bigfishrunning 2mo agoWe should do that anyway, CSS was a mistake. I miss gopher.
- pjmlp 2mo agoNot nntp? :)
- klibertp 2mo agoIt's not that bad... But it is bad. It looks cool, and I managed to read the first few paragraphs. But when the code scrolled into view, it stopped looking cool and became an eye-destroying disaster. YMMV, but OP, if you read this, please consider disabling the text-shadow for code snippets... or disabling syntax highlighting in code snippets. These two things are not a good thing together.