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Comment by oneeyedpigeon | Hacker News Reader

Does everyone at IBM still use a 1024*768 monitor? Come on, guys, we've moved on from 12px sized fonts.

Edit: BTW, irony intentional.

No, I am not ;)

More seriously, are you unhappy with the default layout of developerWorks blogs? What change do you suggest? Not that I am in any way responsible for it, but I can certainly pipe your suggestions to the power that be.

On a retina screen, 12px is practically unreadable, particularly in Helvetica Neue, which is quite a light font. To be honest, IBM's site has had tiny fonts for as long as I can remember, they just become more problematic as resolutions increase over time.

I have a retina-class screen and I didn't notice that there was a problem, because I zoomed here as I do for almost all sites.

Maybe I should get into the habit of doing that, then. I've only ever felt the need to do it for one site before (Daring Fireball which uses an unbelievable 11px font!), and I've been put off in the past by the inferior behaviour of zoom as opposed to text size (which now seems to not even be available in Chrome). Minimum font size would be a good workaround if it didn't apply to the developer console, which is pretty crazy.

As long as you're taking suggestions - i would like to see bigger fonts, syntax highlighted code and maybe more color contrast between sidebar/top/comments and the main content.

This is a good example of Sayre's Law [1], which I only learned about from another HN post the other day. ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

Lol and thanks. I'll reuse that one for sure!

I'll echo what other posters have said. Larger fonts. Highlight the code samples, maybe even add a subtle background color to them.

Less important but annoying, why are the share buttons stacked? It creates about 150px of wasted space.

Being able to zoom on mobile would be essential (cannot read the whole table on Samsung S3 with Firefox).

Article shows up great for me and I'm using 2560x1600, although syntax highlighted code snippets would be nice.

Maybe adjust your browser font settings or DPI settings?

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