Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern

Re:Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern by clort on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:26AM (#9206243)

Can you explain the gag, for those of us who do not include HTML & CSS in our area of expertise?

I see that the font changes to serif, when the text is scrolled. Is that funny? How does this HTML work?

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Re:Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern by maxerickson on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:47AM (#9206289)

There is an ongoing gag of using Comic Sans to hassle people that complain about fonts.

This gag rewards people who read more than the first couple of lines before bouncing just because of the ugly font.

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Re:Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern by spash on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:35PM (#9208918)

Well, browsing with NoScript, I wasn't even aware of this gag until I returned to read HN comments some 20 hours later (as it looks, the Comic Sans is firstly set via JavaScript, along with the subsequent flip back to the 'normal' serif.)

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but even if just an unintentional byproduct - isn't that a nice "additional" reward for people that don't allow running unnecessary scripts on random web sites?

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Re:Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern by nailer on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:35AM (#9206420)

To the point where LibreSSL and other OpenBSD sites use Comic Sans in their 'logos'.

Note The OpenBSD Foundation does not ;^).

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