Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress

http://tomcreighton.com/2012/10/glider-theme/

by tomcreighton • 14 years ago

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rkudeshi• 14 years ago

Title should be 'Glider'.

callmevlad• 14 years ago

I like the simplicity of it, but almost immediately ran into a usability/navigation issue:

- I hit the arrow key to go to the menu, and choose "A Personal API". So far so good.

- I click on the arrow again, it just fades out. Ok... let's try the back button. That removes the hash from the URL, but I'm still on "A Personal API". Pressing Forward adds the hash back, but there are no changes on the page.

The only option I have to keep navigating is to refresh the page.

I'm on Chrome Canary, and I'm not seeing any errors in the console. On my iPhone, the arrow button seems to work to go back to the menu, but the back button is also broken.

tomcreighton4• 14 years ago

I guess I should have pointed out that this is very much a 1.0 release. This is obviously not desired behaviour - thanks for the heads up.

Avshalom• 14 years ago

same behavior on firefox 16.0.2 on windows xp.

anabis• 14 years ago

same on firefox 16.0 in Win7

halo• 14 years ago

The ridiculous leading makes it unreadable for me.

alhaigh• 14 years ago

I think the line height looks cool, but IS a bit hard to read on longer posts. Maybe dial it down to 30px?

gjulianm• 14 years ago

Nice :) I will try to add it to my blog later, it's perfect for me.

Just one thing: it's me, or the theme looks better on Mac than on Windows? The font seems too sharp on Win.

mimiflynn• 14 years ago

fonts generally look worse in Windows than Mac. OS X does some magic to smooth out those fonts.

georgemcbay2• 14 years ago

> fonts generally look worse in Windows than Mac.

This is subjective.

See: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html

I prefer the way fonts look on Windows. Other people prefer the way fonts look in MacOS.

> OS X does some magic to smooth out those fonts.

FWIW, it is Windows that is actually doing "magic" (in the sense that it is using a algorithm to fit pixels to grid) whereas MacOS just does a more direct rendering of the actual font curves. Whether or not you like that "magic" is up to you. Until we're using retina-style displays everywhere, I like the Windows "magic".

tomcreighton4• 14 years ago

It's currently using a Google Fonts font, so you could easily swap it out (or use a system font) if you were so inclined.

idodevops• 14 years ago

Feedback: I expected the arrow at the right of the screen to take me to the next article, not to a navigation/contents menu.

bigiain• 14 years ago

I did too, but it was pretty quick to work out what was going on when I clicked it the first time. Not "intuitive", but nicely "discoverable" behaviour.

yuchi2• 14 years ago

Very good theme, but should html5 push State when possible, it would make it near-perfect.

ckluis• 14 years ago

pjax would work today on several browsers with graceful degradation.

tomcreighton4• 14 years ago

Great suggestions, thanks. This is very v1.0, I'm going to keep tinkering.

yuchi2• 14 years ago

And, btw, you should not provide animation to that browsers not supporting push state at all. You're going to have a bad time if you mix full solid urls and hastag ones. Ask twitter...

Casseres• 14 years ago

When clicking on the arrow to see the list of other posts and then clicking on one of those posts, I would expect the URL to change. Instead, of http://tomcreighton.com/2012/09/getting-something-off-my-too... I get this: http://tomcreighton.com/2012/10/chipping-away/#/getting-some...

Other than that, I like it. Good work.

tomcreighton4• 14 years ago

Thanks! Yeah, appending a hash is not ideal, but it got the job done - I'll be updating it with pushState or similar in the future.

navs• 14 years ago

Unfortunately that menu slide in animation just doesn't work out well on an iPad 3. I'm not able to checkout the code ATM but I assume you're using jquery for the animation. CSS3 animations generally perform better on iPads. This plugin is great: http://playground.benbarnett.net/jquery-animate-enhanced/

capex• 14 years ago

love it.

pwenzel• 14 years ago

Nice concept, but I would definitely consider using something like PJAX (https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax) in place of the javascript loading already in place.

Also, text is really tiny on my iPhone.

chj2• 14 years ago

If a text-focused theme doesn't do justified text align, it looks bad.

hfz• 14 years ago

Disagree. Justification causes the so called "River" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography) that can cause readability problem.

With the relative lack of typographical control on the web right now, it's best to keep text non-justified.

hdevalence• 14 years ago

Rivers mean your justification algorithm is broken. It is true that the browser being broken isn't something you can change, but using CSS hyphens and falling back to something like hyphenator.js allows you to have justified text that is basically free of rivers in practice. It's perhaps not as easy as it should be, but it is possible.

chj2• 14 years ago

This problem is solvable (actually solved by TeX 30 years ago).

Try to read the page on a narrow screen like mobile phone, you will know how bad it is without hyphenation.

gprasanth• 14 years ago

Looks nice. But, how about not executing any JS content that is injected by plugins or theme other than what is required(like jQuery etc.)? I am talking about the "Tweet" link. Is that possible?

Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress

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