Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by mattowen_uk on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:09PM (#26845298)

Slightly off-topic, but as much as I like all these low-tech websites (and I really do!) - I think I need some sort of extension that does this:

    body {
      max-width:900px;
      margin-left:auto;
      margin-right:auto;
    }

Because trying to read full width text on modern resolutions is way too wide, and I don't even run my browser full screen - I have no idea how people that do, can read it.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by PowerfulWizard on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:47PM (#26845623)

I grew up reading the newspaper every day and I prefer quite a narrow margin, here is my bookmarklet for narrowing pages (and it changes font).:

    javascript:!function(){var e,t;e='body {margin: auto;margin-left: 100px;max-width: 540px;font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;}',t=document.createElement("style"),t.type="text/css",t.appendChild(document.createTextNode(e)),document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(t)}();

You could change the "540" to "900" for your needs. I prefer this to narrowing the window because I prefer the whole screen to have a uniform background color.

Edit I don't think it is infaillible, it didn't work on this page, but it works well on pages with no markup. For more complicated site you may try this: https://oxal.org/projects/sakura/bookmark/

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by mattowen_uk on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:33PM (#26846381)

I didn't think of doing this! I'll edit your snippet to do just the css I need and save it as a bookmark(let). Cheers!

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by m-p-3 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:57PM (#26845697)

I send the page to Reader View in Firefox when I can. otherwise, Pocket and Outline are great for that.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by AgoRapide on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:23PM (#26845425)

Author here. I agree :)

What I do myself on sites like this is to use CTRL+ until the text is so large that I can read multiple lines in parallell (that is the secret behind speed reading, but the lines can not be too long of course).

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by faitswulff on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:39PM (#26845564)

Reader mode, when it works, is a godsend for these sites.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by Aardwolf on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:14PM (#26846242)

I almost always have 2 vertical side by side windows (meta+left and meta+right shortcuts), that's useful about wide high resolutions

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by thejohnconway on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:44PM (#26845599)

I don’t think you’ll need an extension, most browsers still support a custom CSS file, I think.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by nitrogen on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:57PM (#26845695)

Might also try resizing the browser window. It's kind of a waste to have a single app fill the entire screen, just to put blank bars on the sides.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by dylan604 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:58PM (#26846135)

> It's kind of a waste

To you. What I or someone not you does is up to them. For example, keeping a window full screen might have a lot of empty/negative space, but sometimes that's the desired effect to cover up all of the other things attempting to grab one's attention without having to hide/minimize other windows.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by em-bee on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:35PM (#26846388)

resizing the browser window messes with the other tabs which i do prefer in fullscreen, so i'd have to switch back and forth

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by forgotmypw17 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:05PM (#26845749)

here is the more versatile way:

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by AgoRapide on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:16PM (#26846261)

By the way, while we are discussing readability, important message to all hipsters: We boomers prefer high contrast, that is black text on white background.

Sites with grey text on grey background I usually skip.

Once Firefox was my web browser because it has a very easy setting for forcing exactly this (black on white).

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by johnchristopher on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:48PM (#26847337)

Firefox has a reading mode that is quite handy.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by IggleSniggle on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:23PM (#26845414)

I typically read either on mobile, where reader view is a single tap. On Desktop if it’s too wide (and it rarely is since I browse at 150% zoom) then popping the window to one side is generally sufficient (two taps: Cmd-Right), and if that’s not enough, follow up with Cmd-+.

To be honest I never notice this particular problem because it’s easy to mitigate. The one I do notice is when someone creates an unnecessary minimum width so all the text doesn’t fit. I’m not a huge fan of max width either but it usually is a pretty minor annoyance.

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