Databases are for Pussies

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by dhotson • 16 years ago

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Devilboy4• 16 years ago

Sorry to be offtopic but I tried 2 different browsers and this site is unreadable even when I increase the text size.

dhotson4• 16 years ago

Hmm, what browsers/OS are you using?

It's using Typekit @font-face for good looking text, Perhaps that's the problem?

Devilboy4• 16 years ago

I'm using Chrome on WinXP. Maybe Vista or 7 is required?

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/poqp7.png

chrislloyd4• 16 years ago

If you're on Windows, sorry. Both Firefox and IE have terrible font rendering on that OS which basically munges the font. Try Safari (I've heard that's better). It would be nice if Typekit did fallback rendering for Windows only which basically just used Times New Roman and Helvetica. I, however, don't want to implement this because I suspect you are one of the first people to visit the site on Windows.

bad_user2• 16 years ago

> I suspect you are one of the first people to visit the site on Windows

Do you have some stats to go with that?

dhotson4• 16 years ago

Oh damn.. so anything using Typekit basically looks awful on Windows? What a shame..

Also, I reckon your site looks fantastic. Just sayin' :-)

jk• 16 years ago

WinXP and firefox3.

The font is Times New Roman and the site is readable (had to increase font size).

sid02• 16 years ago

> If you're on Windows, sorry. Both Firefox and IE have terrible font rendering on that OS which basically munges the font

I'm not sure what you're talking about -- the only real problem I can see with Firefox on Windows is that the font is far too small for a serif font to be readable on screen.

(side note: I universally hate serif fonts on screen, which is why I always force fonts to Calibri. I did disable forcing fonts to check your site out, though, but I'm afraid it hasn't swayed my opinion of serif fonts one bit. I'll continue to force fonts until most web designers switch to sans-serif.)

bruceboughton• 16 years ago

That's a shame. It looks beautiful under Chrome on Windows.

eru• 16 years ago

It's readable in Chrome under Ubuntu/Xmonad.

rogermugs• 16 years ago

voted up for best title ever

dhotson4• 16 years ago

Just to get this discussion back on track a bit..

I think it's a great idea to design user interfaces before writing code. I find it really helpful for figuring out what actually needs to be done.

Also, sometimes I find that an idea that's easy to express in code is not always as easy to express in a user interface.

I have a feeling that this is why the majority of UI's designed by programmers suck.

bad_user2• 16 years ago

Title sucks as it has nothing to do with its content.

Starting with the design is for pussies too ... considering that a mostly static design is really different from the end-result and you won't see the problems with it until you've got real content, this after you've waisted hours and hours on bikeshed issues.

Doing contracting work for clients for whom you can't explain that the design they are seeing isn't final and that they should focus more on the actual workflow / functionality ... that's for pussies too :)

And speaking of real clients that want to click the kitty ... trust me, they won't appreciate your HTML5 compliant code, or a font that doesn't render well in WinXP.

melito• 16 years ago

Pixii seems broken on OSX (stock ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1).

I can't try tyrone :(

Not sure where to submit bugs because the article tells me to use thor instead and that pixii isn't maintained.

chrislloyd4• 16 years ago

Pushed new version of Tyrone, and finally deleted Pixii!

Databases are for Pussies

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