aranjedeath

What sort of browser do you use that doesn't support anti-aliasing of fonts?

How wide is your screen (in px)? Because the max width of my layout is around the old 760px standard. You should be able to see everything (even if, as you say, it's a bit too large).

On the other hand, it's a pretty valid critique. To be honest I forgot that there are 11 inch screens (or, screens that are larger than phones but smaller than 17inch desktop monitors). I'm not on any sort of a big screen.

And indeed, my lineheight is 1.618em (golden number in math, heh). I say 1.5 because it's a nice compromise. Perhaps 1.3 or so is better in certain circumstances.

Yes unfortunately there is a set of meta tags you can use to set things like default and max zoom level for the page. If they're both at 1.0, you can't zoom at all. I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea to standardize, but if I meet them they will not be receiving a beer.

Thanks for pointing it out, I didn't see that article.

After having read that article, I'll concede the fundamental argument is the same. I don't have a smartphone, however. The only place I will ever read something is on my desktop computer, and that's what I want. Media queries or "mobile-first design" can be used to solve the issue from both sides of that complaint.

Yeah. The basic thing I evaluate on most "news" sites is I dive in and set their font to 16 or 18px and 1.5em line height. I even leave their fonts in tact, most of the time. It's an instantaneous readability increase.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll prepare a few side-by-sides.

I see now why I'm being downvoted. See, now there is substance to the article. 10 hours ago, it was 2 paragraphs on citadel malware and cnc servers and 3 more on their anti-malware app, with gratuitous screenshots of such. It /was/ an ad.

Nice ad.

He'll have no challengers as long as his benefactors like what he's doing.

Don't get suckered into premature optimization. If you're still small, bolting stripe on lets you accept money and get back to building the rest of the product. Sometime in the future it will make perfect sense to redo the entire payment system. Today is not that day.

I actually did a bunch of research a while back on this very topic. I put the best links at the bottom of my resulting blog post. https://explodie.org/writings/researching-longform-styleshee...

I refuse to write anything with less than 18px default font size, for this very reason. It's so infuriating when text is small. I have silly old screens and I still can't read your content!

I've read comments in this about differing DPI sizes, so I'll see if I can take that into consideration as well.

Seems clear to me. Fast fixes ftw!

I would like to express my flat unhappiness at being linked to not-the-correct-page. Interstitial ad pages can suck shit through ten bricks.

I guess technically dzone isn't an ad page, but I can't find any content on the page other than ads and a top-10 list, so the difference to me is semantic.