[wp-hackers] Readability / Typography

[Dan Gayle]

For the sake of cleaning up this discussion, here are further thoughts  
from several professional type people, and the eminent accessibility  
guru Joe Clark:
http://typophile.com/node/54631

Feel free to chime in with your thoughts/questions there, which is a  
far more appropriate forum for typographic discussion.

On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:

> Good points, all.  Thanks.
>
> -Mike Schinkel
> http://mikeschinkel.com/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Williams" <chris at clwill.com>
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:50:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada  
> Eastern
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Readability / Typography
>
> - Fixed width (for a guy who rails against it)
> - Exceptionally wide (what if I'm NOT on a wide monitor?  I get a  
> horizontal
> scroll bar)
> - Insists that I go full screen with my browser (reformats content  
> to match
> my screen, not my browser window).  And even then makes a math error  
> so I
> have a vertical scroll bar no matter what (think he didn't count on  
> my FF
> debugging toolbar).
> - Not a single meaningful link (no permalink to each article, not  
> even a
> "home" by clicking on the banner)
> - Messed up formatting (for me on Mac/FF-3, the "next page" link is  
> all over
> the place, in the text even)
> - Only navigation is next/previous page (how "web like", control your
> readers like a newspaper)
>
> Etc.  Simply put, a mess...
>
>
>> From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>
>> Reply-To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:51:07 -0600 (CST)
>> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Readability / Typography
>>
>> Interesting. I know this is off-topic, and it'd be great to take  
>> off the list,
>> but what's wrong with the example that was given? It looks quite  
>> good to me
>> (me who knows little about typography.)
>>
>> -Mike Schinkel
>> http://mikeschinkel.com/
>
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