http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/01/08/the-horror-the-horror.aspxJeff "Coding Horror" Atwood has many nice things to say about my blog and one not so nice thing. Thanks Jeff! Much appreciated. And thanks for the links. (Jeff did not link to my most popular post ever , but he's probably not an eleven year old girl.)en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/01/08/the-horror-the-horror.aspx#1436629Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:59:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1436629Björn<p>Hail to the Purple Lucida!</p> <p>Seriously, I do not see the claimed assault of this combination (the contrast is ok and so is the font size and line height), there are far worse sites - e.g. the font size of this very edit box is an assulting insult to my old eyes =]</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/01/08/the-horror-the-horror.aspx#1438723Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:09:52 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1438723James McKay<p>I think we could live with purple lucida, though you do need to increase the line height a bit and add more white space between blog entries and paragraphs. You also need to increase the size of your post titles to make them stand out: they're way too small. I'd also suggest indenting your code snippets and possibly putting a border round them.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/01/08/the-horror-the-horror.aspx#1439397Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:47:01 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1439397Bud<p>Purple text is not as bad as light gray text, very small fonts, serif fonts, or other low-readibility combinations.</p> <p>Web sites using serif fonts with low contrast text make for hard reading and reduced usability.</p> <p>For some sites, I need to hit CTRL-A to make them more visible and do not spend much time there.</p> <p>Maybe the designers think making their sites hard to use provides some advantage ....</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/01/08/the-horror-the-horror.aspx#1445172Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:50:25 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1445172mike<p>Jeff does like to &quot;advise&quot; people a lot about how they should blog, including layout, appearance, frequency, content, and language. This is his thing, and we love him for it. He is a human factor. </p> <p>I am somewhat surprised, and ironically so since I am in a position to implement this in my own blog, that more blogs do not allow the user, as opposed to the author, to select appearance preferences. At least browsers these days seem to allow you to zoom the page whether the author intended that or not. This has become more important to me in the last few years, hmm, wonder why.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/01/08/the-horror-the-horror.aspx#1454474Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:56:31 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1454474Charlie Calvert's Community Blog<p>Welcome to the eighteenth issue of Community Convergence. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C# Community PM, and</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/01/08/the-horror-the-horror.aspx#1606758Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:25:14 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1606758Jeff Atwood<p>&gt; Jeff did not link to my most popular post ever, but he's probably not an eleven year old girl</p> <p>Perhaps not physically, but emotionally.. I don't want to talk about it.</p>