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Xerox Printer Beacons And The Importance of Documentation

44 points by philip1209 13y ago

mikestew 13y ago
I'm loathe to be the guy that complains about someone's CSS, and as far as I know I never have on HN, but this time I must break my silence. The quoted text is literally unreadable on my machine in both Chrome and Firefox, tested on two different monitors. (EDIT: kind of readable on Android Chrome, but I'd still immediately close the tab and move on.) It looks exactly like a comment on HN that got downvoted to oblivion (only with a white background). I seriously cannot imagine that anyone looks at that and says, "yeah, that's readable, publish it". That said, I obviously didn't read the article and have nothing further to add. :-(
- pasbesoin 13y ago
  https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ An oldie, but still useful. Alternatively, use e.g. Web Developer extension to disable all CSS on the loaded page. Things like this are a good part of why I insist that the browser do, first and foremost, what the user wants, rather than the designer or whoever.
  - mikestew 13y ago
    Thanks; cool list of goodies. I assume the Zap bookmarklets were what you were prescribing for this particular problem. If I really care about the content, I fire up Safari and use the Reader button (works well for "you've exceeded your free views" overlays, too). In this case I didn't care that much (I fired up two other browsers and a mobile device only out of idle curiosity about whether it was specific to one browser or just plain broke).
    - pasbesoin 13y ago
      I've written some of my own bookmarklets, to e.g. change background color, font, leading, etc. Jesse's set was/is a good starting point. In part, I liked/like this approach because it doesn't necessitate my sharing my browsing/reading list with a (or, yet another ;-) third party. Not that it would be particularly controversial; nonetheless...
- davidu 13y ago
  bug bug, sorry. fixing now.
dfc 13y ago
Reading the blockquotes is next to impossible without highlighting the text. Is #E1E1E1 really the best color for text set in a light font with a white background? (for reference `lightgrey` is #D3D3D3)
- davidu 13y ago
  We're fixing that now. bug bug.
0x0 13y ago
I can not believe xerox didn't register these domains up front. Such negligence.
- protomyth 13y ago
  True, but I do wonder about the programming. If I read this correctly I'm supposed to add "XeroxDiscoverySuperNode1" to my existing DNS for internal queries to a McAfee ePO server. So, I would get XeroxDiscoverySuperNode1.mydomain.tld for a query. How does that default back to XeroxDiscoverySuperNode1.com?
  - 0x0 13y ago
    Good question. Maybe a lot of clients with a misconfigured dns search suffix set to "com"? Maybe there are similar requests flying out to org/net/fr/whatever?
    - protomyth 13y ago
      It just seems like one of those "maybe I shouldn't do this query" moments. Requiring something other than just a TLD should be a basic check.

44 points by philip1209 13y ago

I'm loathe to be the guy that complains about someone's CSS, and as far as I know I never have on HN, but this time I must break my silence. The quoted text is literally unreadable on my machine in both Chrome and Firefox, tested on two different monitors. (EDIT: kind of readable on Android Chrome, but I'd still immediately close the tab and move on.) It looks exactly like a comment on HN that got downvoted to oblivion (only with a white background). I seriously cannot imagine that anyone looks at that and says, "yeah, that's readable, publish it". That said, I obviously didn't read the article and have nothing further to add. :-(

pasbesoin 13y ago
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ An oldie, but still useful. Alternatively, use e.g. Web Developer extension to disable all CSS on the loaded page. Things like this are a good part of why I insist that the browser do, first and foremost, what the user wants, rather than the designer or whoever.
- mikestew 13y ago
  Thanks; cool list of goodies. I assume the Zap bookmarklets were what you were prescribing for this particular problem. If I really care about the content, I fire up Safari and use the Reader button (works well for "you've exceeded your free views" overlays, too). In this case I didn't care that much (I fired up two other browsers and a mobile device only out of idle curiosity about whether it was specific to one browser or just plain broke).
  - pasbesoin 13y ago
    I've written some of my own bookmarklets, to e.g. change background color, font, leading, etc. Jesse's set was/is a good starting point. In part, I liked/like this approach because it doesn't necessitate my sharing my browsing/reading list with a (or, yet another ;-) third party. Not that it would be particularly controversial; nonetheless...
davidu 13y ago
bug bug, sorry. fixing now.

dfc 13y ago

Reading the blockquotes is next to impossible without highlighting the text. Is #E1E1E1 really the best color for text set in a light font with a white background? (for reference `lightgrey` is #D3D3D3)

davidu 13y ago
We're fixing that now. bug bug.

0x0 13y ago

I can not believe xerox didn't register these domains up front. Such negligence.

protomyth 13y ago
True, but I do wonder about the programming. If I read this correctly I'm supposed to add "XeroxDiscoverySuperNode1" to my existing DNS for internal queries to a McAfee ePO server. So, I would get XeroxDiscoverySuperNode1.mydomain.tld for a query. How does that default back to XeroxDiscoverySuperNode1.com?
- 0x0 13y ago
  Good question. Maybe a lot of clients with a misconfigured dns search suffix set to "com"? Maybe there are similar requests flying out to org/net/fr/whatever?
  - protomyth 13y ago
    It just seems like one of those "maybe I shouldn't do this query" moments. Requiring something other than just a TLD should be a basic check.