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line-height: 0.1em ftl

(gross exaggeration)

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As soon as I see eye filth like that I go right to my readability bookmarklet:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

80% of the time, it works every time.

Thank you.

Oh you rock, this is awesome. As soon as I opened the link for this news item I closed it immediately due to the complete lack of readability. Someone buy the man a book on typography, please!

This comment was more valuable than the article. Thanks!

You just made my day. Thank you, sir.

There's also always View -> Page Style ->No Style

And Ctrl + (Repeat until satisfied)

Definitely... I have Verdana as my default font and I Ctrl+ and Ctrl- my way all over the web.

How about setting a suitable default zoom level? That way you only have to sometimes decrease it.

( At least Opera supports this, don't remember about Firefox )

At least the last time I set up a computer for an elderly relative, it required an extension, I think it's called Default Pagezoom.

And Ctrl-0 returns to default size. Before I knew this I was more resistant to temporarily adjusting font size because of the annoyance of then returning to default size.

I always just "(Dis)allow pages using their own fonts" + a readable minimum font size. That makes browsing much more comfortable for me and doesn't break too many sites (only very rigid table layouts, most of the time crappy online shops).

A tool as brilliant as this, combined with an audience that reads tons of articles spread all over the internet every day, surely it deserves its own thread?

I can see myself using Readability to format most of the articles I read online now.

Thanks for the link!

It had its own thread a while back

I think sometimes a duplicate is valid, after all I read through HN 2-3 times a day and I still managed to miss the thread for this the first time around.

btw, if you are using conkeror(or may be vimperator), use this tip to bind it to a key(I bind it to 'z'). Much easier. http://conkeror.org/Tips#Makethecurrentpagereadablebyremovin...

What a fabulous little tool! Thanks for the link.

Before submitting my own comment re:the lack of line-height on this site I searched for "line-height" in the comments because I know Hacker News so damn well.

Forchrissakes people how does anyone think this is even approaching readable!? Someone needs a whack with the UI stick

Or just surf around with firebug installed. Then: right-click the text area, choose "inspect element", then right-click the DIV its in, in Firebugs code area, then add this attribute: style="line-height:1.5; font-family: Lucida Grande; width:50%; margin:0 auto" (asp.net's ridiculous CSS is a bit trickier, but that CSS snippet usually gets most sites up to readability scratch)

Oh, and a poor man's arc90 readability thing can be found with the "zap annoyances" bookmarklets:

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html

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