Dress code: blue tie and male

Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by jlgreco on Saturday May 12, 2012 @05:46PM (#3965248)

Nearly impossible to read that article with that stupid bar thing hanging over the text on the left side.

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Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by antidoh on Saturday May 12, 2012 @06:03PM (#3965294)

I hate these. Who wouldn't.

Firefox: View/Page Style/No Style turns the page into plain, readable text.

Think of all the effort someone went through, to take perfectly good content and deface it.

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Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by Tyr42 on Saturday May 12, 2012 @05:48PM (#3965253)

I had to click back to the site after reading your comment, as I didn't even notice it, so YMMV.

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Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by Groxx on Saturday May 12, 2012 @05:52PM (#3965267)

Eh, that's one of the less offensive ones I've encountered. Narrower than most, and not animated.

edit: oh, it's just a bit buggy. make your window narrower, and it disappears :) that makes it way better than most I've seen.

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Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by jlgreco on Saturday May 12, 2012 @06:01PM (#3965289)

http://i.imgur.com/nw6TM.png

That's what it looks like to me with my browser maximized. How people design things like this and don't do a quick check to make sure it works well for different reasonable browser window dimensions is beyond me.

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Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by ralphsaunders on Saturday May 12, 2012 @06:29PM (#3965376)

I employ the 'readable' bookmarklet for situations like this. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

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Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by jlgreco on Saturday May 12, 2012 @06:31PM (#3965383)

Yeah, that's what I eventually ended up doing. I only bothered to turn on my bookmark toolbar and use it in this case though because I had a particularly strong interest in reading this article. In most other cases I would have passed it by.

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Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by Groxx on Sunday May 13, 2012 @01:55AM (#3966179)

Did you try making it narrower? It hides the floaty sidebar thing when the window is narrower than the main page content.

Totally unintuitive, but better than leaving it there, which is what most sites do.

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Re:Dress code: blue tie and male by FuzzyDunlop on Saturday May 12, 2012 @05:51PM (#3965263)

Actually impossible when you want to zoom in, because the text is fairly small.

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