john robert boynton: Web - Usability - Humorlicentious radio(Untitled)- May 26, 2003 Further adventures of ­.... For those of you just tuning in, licentious radio's NO JUSTIFICATION in HTML campaign is sweeping the web. Why Because justifying text without hyphenation typically leaves uneven. gaping holes between words, where a single, small space should be. Even though the right edge is nicely even, the gaping holes and running rivers (a hole at about the same place in several lines) make reading difficult. If you intend for people to read the text on your website,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/05/25.html#a1657 (Untitled)- May 25, 2003 Tantek (Thursday) said it's too easy in CSS to wind up with columns of text overlapping each other. That's for sure. Rather a usability problem when that happens. Using tables for page layout, the problem is a column stretching widely. Example -- you put an image in a column that for one reason or another is bigger than the column wouldashoulda been. With tables, the column becomes too wide. With CSS, the image blots out whatever is in the next column. Many people keep designing as if they...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/05/25.html#a1655 (Untitled)- May 24, 2003 Met up with the traveling DougTantekTodd show Thursday evening. Some of the CSS conversation was drowned out by a bluegrass band, but the cafe itself was all right. Tantek and Todd each had a copy of Zeldman's new book. All three of them are in the book, having each made significant contributions to standards andor use of standards. Topics touched upon included png transparency for ie, the Zen Garden website (a site where numerous designers have contributed stylesheets to show how thoroughly.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/05/24.html#a1652 (Untitled)- May 21, 2003 Just for the anti-zeldman record: the latest addition to the local stylesheet for Zeldman's primarycontent is "color: black". Oh. Nice, readable, black text.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/05/21.html#a1638 (Untitled)- May 3, 2003 Random Rant on the font tag.... Putting a font tag in every freaking table cell was pretty silly. On the other hand, it worked. "Worked" in the sense of letting users pick the default text size, and reliably scaling the text size from there across platforms. The fact that some designers picked the typically unreadable "font size=1" for body text was not the fault of the font tag. CSS has a way to do essentially the same thing, but Microsoft broke it by picking different relative sizes than.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/usabilityUsabilityHumor/2003/05/03.html#a1585 |