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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by jfasi on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:04PM (#6643380)
If you're as turned off by the formatting of this page as I am, I'm currently working on a CSS framework to beautifully display longform text.

As luck would have it, this essay was my test case:

http://alexgolec.github.io/orwell/politics

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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by nkuttler on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @06:19PM (#6643849)
I was surprised to read this comment because the post links... to your page. What was the original link?
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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by jsnk on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:25PM (#6643517)
You need left margin or left padding. It's really awkward without it. Also max-width on the content please.

edit: Thanks for the update. Looks really nice.

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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by devx on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:30PM (#6643549)
On Chrome you can use an extension like iReader to format it nicely:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ireader/ppelffpjgk...

Yours does look a little nicer, though. You should make it an extension.

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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by aeflash on Thursday October 31, 2013 @04:38PM (#6649670)
Readability handles it well: http://www.readability.com/articles/mmpx1oek
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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by codezero on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:11PM (#6643433)
This looks great, thanks!
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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by mparramon on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:56PM (#6643699)
it looks really nice! is there a way to see the source code on github or similar?
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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by somebehemoth on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:11PM (#6643432)
Lovely.
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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by daragh on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @06:01PM (#6643740)
This is gorgeous.
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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by TsiCClawOfLight on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:18PM (#6643479)
Wow, amazing! :)
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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by angelo on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @06:37PM (#6643973)
..and you somehow forget the most important feature, bar none:

    p { max-width: 30em; }
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Re:George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) by jfasi on Friday November 01, 2013 @12:44PM (#6654752)
What browser are you using? I believe I implemented the max-width using a container div rather than putting restrictions on the p elements.
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