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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:45:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110715214509.3883fc49@lahti.ethans.dre.am> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM6ozu4W239WfBciK890qwnvYUf-J8Fm-v04BrmvaGgXr+dwOQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:15:27 +0200
"Peter A. Cejchan" <tyapca7@gmail.com> wrote:

> > MARGINS! Why is it all the computer nerds are obsessed with eradicating
> margins? Do they actually never try to read anything using
>
>  i'm not a comp nerd, rathe a biologist, however, and therefore, i like
> simple, yet working designs.... how do you use margins?

Just to stop my eyesight being bothered by the edge of the screen. The edges of all my current screens are black, and the text-area bg usually white, so there's a lot of contrast there.

>
>  >  The whole setup ... is pleasant to look at,...
>
> :-)))
>
>  > Books have margins.
> ... because they're being printed on paper ;-)   OK, but they have a plain,
> background-colored, non-functional margins ...

I consider them passively functional. :)

> IMHO, as always,
> ++pac



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-15 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-11 14:56 Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 15:14 ` simon softnet
2011-07-11 15:25   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 15:21 ` hiro
2011-07-11 15:23   ` hiro
2011-07-11 15:35   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 15:43     ` dexen deVries
2011-07-11 16:12       ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 16:56         ` Jacob Todd
2011-07-11 17:21           ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 17:25             ` ron minnich
2011-07-11 17:28             ` dexen deVries
2011-07-12  6:15               ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-11 17:28             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-07-11 17:28             ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-07-12  8:23 ` Sergey Kish
2011-07-12  9:18   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-12 12:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12 12:36   ` dexen deVries
2011-07-12 13:00     ` yy
2011-07-12 13:21       ` Jack Norton
2011-07-12 13:40     ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12 14:31       ` dexen deVries
2011-07-12 14:56         ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12 15:26           ` dexen deVries
2011-07-13  6:02             ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-13  6:12               ` Bruce Ellis
2011-07-14 17:12               ` Yaroslav
2011-07-14 17:22                 ` dexen deVries
2011-07-13 13:43             ` Jack Norton
2011-07-13 14:16               ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-07-13 14:45                 ` Anthony Sorace
2011-07-15 20:41                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-15 20:34               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-15 20:59                 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-07-12 20:52   ` Akshat Kumar
2011-07-13  6:15   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-07-13  6:23     ` Bruce Ellis
2011-07-15 20:45     ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]

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