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From: Pd on 9 Jun 2010 10:21 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-09 11:30:30 +0100, Pd said: > > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > >> On 2010-06-09, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > >>> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> the Reader icon > >>> > >>> What is the Reader icon? I see the View menu has an Enter Reader (?!?!) > >>> menu item, but don't see any icon on the page. > >> > >> It appears in the address bar to the left of where the [RSS] icon is, > >> assuming there's an RSS feed. > > > > So it does. I was suffering from small boy "Where are my socks?" > > syndrome, couldn't see what was right in front of my face. > > Yours does that too? I've just come back from picking him up from school. He came out looking very forlorn. "What's the matter?" I asked him. "I can't find my book bag," he said. "You're holding it." "Oh yeah!" says he delightedly. -- Pd
From: Chris Ridd on 9 Jun 2010 11:03 On 2010-06-09 15:56:15 +0100, Elliott Roper said: > One can but hope that HTML5 and better display hardware will encourage > designers to try a bit harder and get back to good old fashioned > typography. Have you been reading <http://www.subtraction.com/2010/06/08/better-screen-same-typography> on this very subject? -- Chris
From: Chris Ridd on 9 Jun 2010 11:05 On 2010-06-09 15:21:43 +0100, Pd said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-06-09 11:30:30 +0100, Pd said: >> >>> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2010-06-09, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: >>>>> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> the Reader icon >>>>> >>>>> What is the Reader icon? I see the View menu has an Enter Reader (?!?!) >>>>> menu item, but don't see any icon on the page. >>>> >>>> It appears in the address bar to the left of where the [RSS] icon is, >>>> assuming there's an RSS feed. >>> >>> So it does. I was suffering from small boy "Where are my socks?" >>> syndrome, couldn't see what was right in front of my face. >> >> Yours does that too? > > I've just come back from picking him up from school. He came out looking > very forlorn. "What's the matter?" I asked him. > "I can't find my book bag," he said. > "You're holding it." > "Oh yeah!" says he delightedly. If their heads weren't screwed on, etc etc. -- Chris
From: Jim on 9 Jun 2010 11:09 On 2010-06-09, Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > It is a jolt innit? The reader's serif font (It looks like Palatino on > my machine) works for me probably /because/ it is serif and justified. > All of sudden it looks like some thought went into the writing. Then > you read the article and it is the same old same old. > > It rams home just how horrible the typographic design and layout of > most properties on the web are. At least for reading the body text > while all the rest of the site is yelling for your attention. > > One can but hope that HTML5 and better display hardware will encourage > designers to try a bit harder and get back to good old fashioned > typography. > And it turns out you can alter aspects of it: <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2010060813435933> Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: James Jolley on 9 Jun 2010 11:36
On 2010-06-09 14:05:21 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:01:50 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter > Ceresole) wrote: > >> James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >> >>>> So it does. I was suffering from small boy "Where are my socks?" >>>> syndrome, couldn't see what was right in front of my face. >>> >>> Makes two of us then. >> >> Well I still can't see it. A plonker's guide, please? > > Right hand end of the URL field, a "Reader" grey button exists when > Safari thinks it's useful. > > Eg, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/08/safari_5_reader/ gets one > once it's finished loading. > > I *really* like the way it's bright enough to dip through "next page" > links. > > Cheers - Jaimie Not half as much as I do, I tell you, it's certainly one hell of a feature for the totally blind especially. |