Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com

Re:Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com by savanaly on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @02:25PM (#13767300)

I think we should give it a few months to see if the fact that it doesn't look good is inherent to the color or just because we've become accustomed to it looking one way for so long. I can't count the number of interface redesigns I've seen in services I used that I hated at first and now I look back at the old design and can't fathom how I ever thought it was better.

And if colorblind people aren't inconvenienced (and don't have to navigate to a menu to de-inconvenience themself) then that's enough of a reason for me.

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Re:Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com by tomschlick on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:39PM (#13768055)

Fair enough.

Side note: I'm surprised there isn't a specific header browsers could send for something like colorblindness. That would allow sites to react to that header and serve up a different stylesheet.

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Re:Powerful new features for businesses on GitHub.com by mstade on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @06:51PM (#13769919)

Isn't that what the accept header is for? Telling the server what content types you're willing to accept, including relevant parameters. Something like:

    Accept: text/css; color-blind=trichromatic

Of course no server would recognize this today, since afaik the CSS media type doesn't define any parameters other than perhaps `charset`, but the mechanism is there at least. Also any self respecting web server would just ignore the parameter so it shouldn't break anything, just cost a few more bytes of bandwidth I guess. No need to invent a new header I don't think.

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