Problems with the new website layout

gcewing on 2015/04/05 02:03
— edited on 2015/04/05 02:04

I've just taken a look at the PyWeek site after being away from it for a while, and I'm disappointed by some of its features.

Visited and unvisited links in the Discussion Threads page appear identical, so I can no longer see which messages I've read.
Text in the messages is a bit too small for me to read easily. Looking at the CSS, the page appears to be using absolute font sizes, overriding the default sizes that I have set in my browser to be comfortable for me.

Is there any chance of these things being remedied?

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mauve on 2015/04/15 05:26:

Yes. In particular I was aware that the links don't change colour. That seems to be the Bootstrap default behaviour, neglecting that it has always been considered bad practice to break visited link colours.

The font size is also Bootstrap default, I think. It's much harder to diagnose that. Certainly there's no such thing as an absolute font size any more; everything is relative to some concept of device dpis etc. But if it's specifically smaller than some other website you do find comfortable I could investigate and compare.

gcewing on 2015/05/18 12:34:

Certainly there's no such thing as an absolute font size any more; everything is relative to some concept of device dpis etc.

I'm talking about things like this, from https://pyweek.org/static/challenge.css:

body {
    margin-top: 20px;
    padding: 0px;
    font: 13px sans-serif;
    color: #212121;
    background: white;
}

This is setting the text to a size of 13 pixels. Whether this is based on the device dpi or whatever is beside the point. The important thing is that you are completely overriding the size that people have set in their browsers. There is no reason to do that.