http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/08/11/final-testing-underway/ Bits on the rampage: Eric Shepherd's blog. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:56:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/08/11/final-testing-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-82731 Wired Earp Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:30:08 +0000 http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/08/11/final-testing-underway/#comment-82731 Not the right place and certainly not the right time to mention this, but I'm not sure that the new MDC design is an improvement for for me (myself). I have a hard time actually reading what it says on my monitor. And I'm not even using a flatscreen display. The font has a little too many serifs, the size is too small, the contrasts are too weak (non-bold links almost dissapear and code snippets are weak) and the different sections of the page are are not adequately distinguishable (hairfine borders almost makes it worse). It sure looks pretty. And at first the problem is not noticeable. But for an all night resource lookup session with lot's of navigation and scrolling around, websites such as the current MDC, XULPlanet and W3C have an edge on readability. Trying to follow a particularly bitchy piece of code, I ended up disabling the stylesheet alltogehter. To stay in synch with the new visual identity, maybe the alternate stylesheet should feature a comeback. Any volunteers? Not the right place and certainly not the right time to mention this, but I’m not sure that the new MDC design is an improvement for for me (myself). I have a hard time actually reading what it says on my monitor. And I’m not even using a flatscreen display. The font has a little too many serifs, the size is too small, the contrasts are too weak (non-bold links almost dissapear and code snippets are weak) and the different sections of the page are are not adequately distinguishable (hairfine borders almost makes it worse). It sure looks pretty. And at first the problem is not noticeable. But for an all night resource lookup session with lot’s of navigation and scrolling around, websites such as the current MDC, XULPlanet and W3C have an edge on readability. Trying to follow a particularly bitchy piece of code, I ended up disabling the stylesheet alltogehter. To stay in synch with the new visual identity, maybe the alternate stylesheet should feature a comeback. Any volunteers?

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