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John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Sat Oct 10 19:59:17 BST 2020
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I just wanted to say that I tried this client for the first time today on aMac, and it is indeed classically beautiful: μηδὲν ἄγαν (nothing in excess)as Apollo said at Delphi. I found everything I needed or wanted andnothing I didn't, or more accurately nothing that I couldn't see someoneelse who is aligned with the spirit of Gemini wanting, like dark mode.
Nevertheless, as a visually impaired person (not so much so that I need ascreen reader, however), I would ask for two things:
1) A mode in which the background is white (which you already have) and allcolors except in icons are mapped to black. Even though your colors aresubtle, black print on white paper, as God and Gutenburg intended, is themost readable. In particular, grayscale text blends into the background,and using less saturated colors in subheadings combined with smaller fontsizes, makes them hard, harder, hardest to interpret. (Colors in icons arefine: I don't have to read them, just look at them.)
2) A nice serif font. Characters with serifs are much easier to recognizebecause the letters look more different. The worst case for sans-seriffonts is l (lower case L) and I (uppercase I). Here they are together:IlIIl. That looks in a sans-serif font like five tally marks, but in factit is I-L-I-I-L with lower case L, as a serif font will show.
There is nothing inherently old-fashioned about serif fonts: Georgia(which is web-safe) is a good candidate for lightweight minimalism, and soare any of those shown at <https://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/design/21-stunning-serif-fonts-websites>.Whatever floats your boat, but with serifs!
Without these things I have to magnify the text even more than I normallydo (150%) and get less and less content per screen. This is a matter ofpure practicality: I'm not asking for the ability to render pages in ComicSans <http://www.identifont.com/find?font=comic+sans&q=Go> or in STOP <http://www.identifont.com/show?374>, a font which combines the virtues ofugliness with those of illegibility.
A very minor third point:
3) It would be nice if, after opening a new tab, the cursor was in theaddress bar. This is convenient: Cmd-T immediately followed by typing theURL, without having to mouse about.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 8:56 AM skyjake <skyjake at dengine.net> wrote:
Hello all,
Here's a brief update on what's been happening with Lagrange since the
initial v0.1 release.
I've just released v0.4 today with preliminary audio playback support. You
can now listen to Ogg Vorbis and WAV files using an inline audio player. It
works the same way as the image viewer.
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https://skyjake.fi/@jk/105010413773282229 Screenshot of audio player
UI
I call this preliminary because it still lacks basic features like volume
control and seeking. The plan is to add more audio codecs as well, although
that will require adding new (optional) dependencies to the build.
The other notable change in v0.4 is support for Windows HiDPI displays,
including respecting the Windows UI scaling factor.
In the earlier builds v0.2 and v0.3, the new features were:
* saving files to the downloads folder
* quotes have an icon for clearer visual distinction
* macOS touch bar support
* improved context menus and text selection
* mailto links
* style customization: font, line width, color saturation
* page outline that appears when hovering over the scroll bar (off by
default)
* site icon and heading in the left margin (wide windows)
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https://skyjake.fi/@jk/104938360727578010 Screenshot of site icon and
hover outline
Binaries are available for Windows (7 or later, 64-bit only) and macOS
10.13+:
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https://git.skyjake.fi/skyjake/lagrange/releases Prebuilt binaries,
source repo
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gemini://skyjake.fi/lagrange/ Project page
--jaakko
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