Code push has happened!

[mark]

Hi all, I'm preparing to do a code push. You can see the latest code tour here: https://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/214638.html

Hang on to your hats!

Edit: The code has pushed! As always, please let us know if you see anything wonky or broken and we'll get on it!

Known Issues - Fixed 'em Maybe?

* Font size was way too small. We've tweaked them to be larger, but would welcome more feedback!
* Lack of ability to horizontally resize comment area. This has been fixed, you can drag the box horizontally again like you should be able to!
* A couple of style issues have been found and fixed.
* An issue affecting some Navigation strips has been fixed.
* An issue affecting syndicated accounts, proxied images, and a couple other worker related tasks were broken. They're better now.
* We've made some updates to the design of the comment reply form, we brought back the browse button, made the subject line full-width, and some other tweaks. Please let us know what you think!
* The RTE on the old create entry form is returned to service. A few more months, that's all we ask of you old friend...
* OpenID was broken, it's back.
* Button sizes are reset to default, we are no longer trying to make things line up. Let the ziggurat design pattern live on.
* Polls should show properly sized bars again.
* Lots more Android issues, we had to murder the unused spellcheck button to make it work out. Some weird interactions with differently sized elements and our ancient HTML.

Known Issues - Pending

* Related, some fields seem to have gone emo and are putting on heavy eyeliner (have bold, dark outlines). We're aware.

All known issues are being investigated and will be fixed! Please hang tight while we work on it :)

If you are reporting something visual, please let us know what browser/device you're on!

Comments

[flangirl]

Okay, first of all, thank you for being politer than the responses I usually get from Denise. I'm sorry for my earlier tone.

To address courier, I am honestly extremely surprised by that study. The problem with courier is that all letters are exactly the same width, making letters like d and b much harder to tell apart; compare Helvetica, for example, b is (or at least appears to me) fractionally narrower and rounder than d. The courier font literally gives me migraines when attempting to read it, to the point where I ask RPers who use [font-face courier] to denote text messages (as opposed to spoken word) to please not use it when tagging with me. I have had to use the Stylebot add-on to change the font face in multiple locations. One size does not fit all, and I know several other people with dyslexia-family disorders who have the same complaint with it that I do.

[mark]

Oh, yeah so -- Courier is a monospaced (fixed width) font -- and of the monospaced family, it is considered to be Dyslexia friendly. If you include variable width fonts in the analysis, there are definitely better options -- I totally agree with you there!

We use a fixed width font to make it easy to write code (HTML) in your comments/entries which is, unfortunately, something that we sort of have to support. It's pretty hard to write code in a variable width font!

I've been considering whether we should add some kind of RTE/easy editor on the comments that would let us switch to a better/variable width font (while still letting people choose to use the HTML editor if they want). Haven't decided to pursue this yet tho.

[flangirl]

Would it be feasible to have an option somewhere in account settings to change the text in the input textarea between a few select fonts, something similar to the available site skins?

Oh my lord I just noticed the Subject box. Sir, bless you.

[kamex]

I don't know what browser you're on, and can't help you if you have chrome or safari, but on firefox, if you type in about:config, you'll be taken to the browser's file-editing section, type in font.name-list.monospace.x-unicode. You can use this to change what sort of font firefox displays as monospace, and it'll affect every time you encounter a monospaced font.

[flangirl]

I am on chrome, but I know a little bit about fiddling with css (bless Stylebot and uBlock, honestly), so I can probably figure out where to plug in something similar. Thank you!

[kamex]

You're very welcome!

Edit: editing this to say that I looked it up, and it appears that a similar hidden options menu can be accessed by typing about:flags or chrome://flags in the chrome address bar.

There should be a search bar of some kind once you're in the browser editing files, just do a search for "monospace", and some similar options should pop up. You should probably be able to edit the fonts to something of your choosing that way.

Good luck!

[flangirl]

Awesome, thank you!!

[kore]

Wow, that's really helpful for me too, thanks!