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Comment by kloncks | Hacker News Reader

I don't mean to distract, but wow. What a gorgeously designed clean website. I meant to read the article - and I did after a while - but the first thing I did was CTRL + U to check out the source code.

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Totally disagree. No text appeared until I enabled Javascript; even then, in Firefox, the text color/typeface was so faint as to be unreadable. (I was interested enough to try firing it up in Chrome, where the text had better contrast.)

Meanwhile, it's absolutely unusable on my Honeycomb tablet.

I would love to finish reading this, but his site design is preventing me from scrolling down to read the rest of the entry.

Here you go: http://www.ihany.com/article-through-hn-not-mine/

(Page not public. Not taking credit. I'll take it down in the morning.)

Thanks a ton!

It's also not rendering correctly in by build of Chromium (11.0.696.71). The interface is slick, but I can't scroll past the bottom margin.

I don't know, this website was so bad I didn't even bother reading the article. The needless choice to shoot in the actual post via javascript bothered me and the javascript based content loading took forever just to load some static text, the loading of the html document itself was quite snappy.

I hardly call dedicating the entire page's leftmost 400px of horizontal space to 4 links "gorgeous" use of some of the most valuable screen real estate. It was impossible to read on my portrait monitor. Even on my landscape monitor this website seems to be designed with the assumption I keep my browser maximized. I know my viewport is smaller than most people would like to design for so I let things slide if there is a lot going on the webpage, but this was entirely text, there is no excuse if the style can't adapt. Not only did it not adapt to my browser size there was no horizontal scrollbar to bring me to the text that went off of the right hand side.

Agreed. Unless I maximize my window, I found the article impossible to read (right side of text is clipped and no horizontal scroll provide -- chrome on linux). This isn't the first page I've found doing this recently; it seems to be a (very annoying) trend.

I had to select View->No style in Firefox 3.6 just to be able to read all of the text... :(

Firefox issue should be fixed. Gecko is weird about some CSS rules, it also renders Helvetica Neue way too thin. I've subbed in Arial for FF users. Sorry about that.

As for Honeycomb people, I'm sorry but Honeycomb behaves very odd--reporting itself NOT as Android. this is a well documented problem. I just don't want to write a fix for it. It behaves fine on the iPad/iPhone and any mobile Android browser so I assume Honeycomb will catch up soon.

As for no-JS readers... =)

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