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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 9 Jun 2010 11:41 On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:36:55 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >On 2010-06-09 14:05:21 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh ><jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said: > >> I *really* like the way it's bright enough to dip through "next page" >> links. > >Not half as much as I do, I tell you, it's certainly one hell of a >feature for the totally blind especially. I bet! It takes me back to the days when the useful parts of the web were almost entirely text, scattered with hyperlinks. Which was a long while ago (although not as far back as Neuromancer's publication, so it doesn't make me feel old - yet). Cheers - Jaimie -- There he saw Merry's feet still sticking out - the rest had already been drawn further inside. Tom put his mouth to the crack and began singing into it in a low voice. They could not catch the words, but evidently Merry was aroused. -- J R R Tolkien
From: James Jolley on 9 Jun 2010 12:13 On 2010-06-09 16:41:46 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:36:55 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> > wrote: > >> On 2010-06-09 14:05:21 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh >> <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said: >> >>> I *really* like the way it's bright enough to dip through "next page" >>> links. >> >> Not half as much as I do, I tell you, it's certainly one hell of a >> feature for the totally blind especially. > > I bet! It takes me back to the days when the useful parts of the web > were almost entirely text, scattered with hyperlinks. > > Which was a long while ago (although not as far back as Neuromancer's > publication, so it doesn't make me feel old - yet). > > Cheers - Jaimie True enough and the nice thing with it is, you can click the hyperlinks in the reader and it still works on the related page.
From: Chris Ridd on 9 Jun 2010 12:32 On 2010-06-09 16:51:34 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:03:40 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> > wrote: > >> 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? > > All good points there, but my regard for him has gone down a little. > > I dislike the use of bold to show hyperlinks, but not as much as I > dislike the way they're done in Joe Clark's article linked forward > from there - http://blog.fawny.org/2010/04/12/appletype/ . Horrid > horrid. Yup. The neatest styling of hyperlinks I saw recently - but can't find again of course - gave them a blue OS X-selection style glow. I think it used text shadows. > Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" makes me think Joe a snob of > the highest order and therefore want to discount everything he says, > even though he's right - it's the way he does it! He doesn't sound very user-friendly :-) -- Chris
From: D.M. Procida on 9 Jun 2010 12:42 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > I dislike the use of bold to show hyperlinks, but not as much as I > dislike the way they're done in Joe Clark's article linked forward > from there - http://blog.fawny.org/2010/04/12/appletype/ . Horrid > horrid. What a car-crash that page is. It's not a very good platform from which to deliver lectures on typography. Daniele
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 9 Jun 2010 12:45
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:42:28 +0100, real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> I dislike the use of bold to show hyperlinks, but not as much as I >> dislike the way they're done in Joe Clark's article linked forward >> from there - http://blog.fawny.org/2010/04/12/appletype/ . Horrid >> horrid. > >What a car-crash that page is. It's not a very good platform from which >to deliver lectures on typography. Utterly - check out the main page, a little way down is this http://blog.fawny.org/2010/06/08/erikgranered/ which I'd move up from car crash to train wreck. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex." -- Marvin the Martian |