• (disco) in reply to aliceif

    But yes, you can <span>-escape everything!

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    But yes, you can <span>-escape everything!

    Doesn't that make you get all Sheldon-twitchy-face, leaving off the closing tag?

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    Why? Doing it wrong is the right thing to do here.

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    Have a like, and also an acknowledgement.

    My son wants you to know he slow-clapped, too.

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    I dunno. I figure he'll explain it eventually.

    True. Rated PNSFW for language.

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/01/07

  • (disco) in reply to kilroo

    :laughing:

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor

    Yeah, that comic instantly caused "The duck raises an excellent point" to replace almost all instances of "good point" among my college friends.

  • (disco) in reply to kilroo
    kilroo:
    Yeah, that comic instantly caused "The duck raises an excellent point" to replace almost all instances of "good point" among my college friends.

    I approve :smile:

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Navigation by keyboard? What century were you born in, man?

    Discodevs loooove them some keyboard shortcuts. Press ? and see all (most) the nifty stuff you can do.

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    No, only sometimes. It's not even consistent as to what the criteria is for it.

    Actually, it is. (I didn't figure this out myself; I made a similar comment back in the early days, and was enlightened by one of the Discodevs, maybe even @codinghorror himself.)

    The color change is just your browser's normal (not-)visited differentiation, with a black/gray scheme. If you have visited (or your browser thinks you have, ± Discourse barfing on your browser's history) the exact URL the topic link is pointing to, it's gray. If not, it's black.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    In which case it's not consistent due to history barfing plugin. If I had the history thing going on full tilt, then yes, I suspect it would be consistent.

  • (disco) in reply to Zecc
    Zecc:
    One of which times *isn't* search results. **I'm looking at you, DuckDuckGo.**
    I've just realized they put an invisble-until-you-notice-it's-there checkmark to the left of each row. [image]

    Sigh... difference for difference's sake. At least it's better than nothing. : P

    Edit: that's not zero width!


    Filed under: U+200B
  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    'Course when you study it, you discover that in a wire carrying a "normal" amount of current, electrons sort of drift down the wire at something like one or two millimetres of net average displacement per second... Or maybe you meant the "orbital" speed of electrons in atoms - a gold atom's two innermost electrons might well be "travelling" at something like 58% of the speed of light...

    Edit - PJH [image]

    ­

  • (disco) in reply to Zecc
    Zecc:
    Edit: that's not zero width!

    <hr><small>Filed under: <a title="ZERO WIDTH SPACE" href="#">U+200B</a></small>

    Well yes, but &zwsp; doesn't work as @FrostCat noticed, and typing &#x200B; is far less convenient than &shy; .

    By the way, a zero-width space will break on line end just like the soft-hyphen would. What we'd really need is a non-breaking zero-width space, which is &#xFEFF; — it's the same ugly hexadecimal notation though.

  • (disco)

    Does :&zwnj;P work? :‌P?

  • (disco) in reply to JBert

    What happened was that I posted :​P with a &amp;#x200B; in the middle (typed under Linux with Ctrl+Shift+U,2,0,0,B), but Discourse replaced it with good old #x0020.

    Good point about using #xFEFF instead though. : P

    Edit: also replaced by Discourse :shakesfist:

  • (disco)

    I've found an alternative: :&Rho;

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    wheeeee! a new pedantry badge was handed out!

    :-D

  • (disco)

    Apart from all the things that are already noted in this topic, the most annoying for me is inability to link to a particular comment for old articles - this means links to comment threads for all classic articles are somewhat broken. For recent example see @chubertdev's comment here which links to a specific comment in an older thread but now instead of landing on the referenced comment you get dumped to the comment page and the context is lost.

    Similarly all in-reply-to links are no longer there so unless the commenter quoted the post he was replying to, there is again no context which makes following old threads very tiresome.

    TL;DR: While merits of new design for new content are arguable at best, I wish you would've at least left the older articles as they were.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    Now share and flag some other people!

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    Now share and flag some other people!

    raise your level of pedantry to an appropriate level and i will!

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    I was trying to be nice.
    Why on Earth would you want to do that?
  • (disco) in reply to marczellm

    I find the site looks like 90% of all slapped together WordPress sites!

  • (disco)

    First of all thanks for your hard work on this site I enjoy reading it.

    However WTF is up with websites today? It seems they all want to fit on phones and tables, well that is fine. But how about some dynamic scaling of the width? On my 1080p screens 50% of the screen is just blank space. It looks like the daily WTF has fallen into this as well? Why do all web designers seem think I want to scroll up and down your site? Also the font is huge, it looks like a children book and gets annoying to read since I need to move my eyes so much more. And even if this site is now "optimized" for tabs and smart phones the font on my galaxy S5 is even bigger then when I am browsing on my PC.

    The current version of slashdot (and here is hoping their beta never gets live) has it right it scales dynamically across the entire screen, and no strange floating frames or things that slows down the webpage. Please can we stop this making websites all fancy and focusing on delivering the message. Get as much information as possible into the windows. At least I have a far easer time moving my eyes then having to scroll...

  • (disco) in reply to periodic
    periodic:
    font is huge [...] annoying to read
    QFT! That's why I am browsing it at 80% zoom.
  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    The problem is however if you browse on 80% zoom there is even more white space on the sides.

  • (disco) in reply to periodic

    Not if you use text-only zoom on the site. There are add-ons for that (at least for FF).

  • (disco) in reply to periodic

    It's better at 150%; the sidebar stops being on the side.

  • (disco) in reply to periodic

    Not if you mess with the CSS locally...

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    Well plugins and things are fine, but its just fixes for a more underlying fundamental problem with site design these days. I expect a fundamental design concept that should be well understood these days would be to scale the width of the website to the windows it is browsed in.

    As for text size I appreciate that there are people out there that has reading disabilities, but most of us don't so why must the default be huge fonts on 50% of the screen, effectively reducing the amount information of information on a screen to what I could squeeze into on my 800x600 monitor back in the days (estimated with the scientifically accepted method of guesstimation ;) ).

  • (disco)

    Am I the only one who doesn't understand this fetish for huge unbroken lines of text that span the entire screen? There are lots of things wrong with "modern" web design trends, but keeping lines short and readable is not one of them.

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier
    hungrier:
    Am I the only one who doesn't understand this fetish for huge unbroken lines of text that span the entire screen? There are lots of things wrong with "modern" web design trends, but keeping lines short and readable is not one of them.

    You think this is acceptable?:

    http://i.imgur.com/jFHx6yd.png

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    It's much better than this: [image]

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier

    If only there was a way to adjust the width of your viewing area ... Oh wait, there is. It's called "window management".

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier
    hungrier:
    It's much better than this:

    No. It really isn't.

  • (disco)

    you're all doing it wrong.

    just wire up an RJ-45 jack to your spinal column and plug in. Problem solved, although you may get a massive headache (also a little bit dead) if someone decides to DoS you....

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier

    Haha! There's a Discourse in your Discourse in my Discourse... at least this is not a Discourse bug.

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    No. It really isn't.

    ~opinions~

    I prefer not having to sweep my eyes back and forth across my entire screen when reading text. It's ok on a netbook or tablet, but not a 22" screen.

    Eldelshell:
    Haha! There's a Discourse in your Discourse in my Discourse... at least this is not a Discourse bug.

    We could keep going, but then we run the risk of someone posting a word that ends in -ception, and nobody wants that.

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier
    hungrier:
    entire screen

    Sorry, but have you really never thought of resizing your browser window? You can even do that in Metro Modern UI, ffs.

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    Sorry, but have you really never thought of resizing your browser window?

    No, I've never heard of this feature before, now my life is forever changed. Really though, resizing the window moves the tab bar away from the top edge of the screen, so by Fitts' law it takes more work to switch tabs. I'd rather just set a custom style (or have the site be designed properly in the first place) and not have to worry about fiddling with window chrome.

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier
    hungrier:
    moves the tab bar away from the top edge of the screen

    Use a less shitty browser. Upgrade to Firefox or Internet Explorer.

  • (disco)

    I solve the font size issue by reading article from the break room down the hall.

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    No. It really isn't.

    It sure is here. What's with people making their browsers so wide?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    The advent of monitors that aren't 4:3?

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    In Soviet Discourse, monitor uses you!

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    The advent of monitors that aren't 4:3?

    And everyone maximizes everything unless you can train 'em not to.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    And everyone maximizes everything unless you can train 'em not to.

    Why wouldn't you maximize all the things?

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Why wouldn't you maximize all the things?

    So you can see more than one application at a time, of course.

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Why wouldn't you maximize all the things?

    That's a silly way to deal with objective functions.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    FrostCat:
    So you can see more than one application at a time, of course.

    That's what multiple monitors are for.

    boomzilla:
    That's a silly way to deal with objective functions.

    I object to that.

    Mostly because I think that you need to clarify your point.

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