Posts by HORansome
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I have a suggestion for the whole navigating through pages and pages of comments malarky; why not have an input box for choosing a page to go to? So rather than:
First ←Older Page 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 Newer→ Last
you would have:
First ←Older Page 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 [input box] Newer→ Last
That way, if I want to go back to page 5 (which I can't currently do without clicking three times), I can just enter "5" into the box and go there immediately.
I'd also get rid of the "Older" and "Newer" links because they don't seem very necessary.
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At the moment I am using Delicious, which is a sans serif font with a unique look for each character. I have a few problems with it, mostly the "g," but it is easy to read and is weighted in such a way that bold type, italic type and Roman type sentences all take up the same space (i.e. if you bold something in the presentation it doesn't much up the pagination). 'Tis a free font, too, which is always good.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
That's interesting; my view on Comic Sans was informed by a disabilities officer on campus who pointed me to some literature on typography and general readability. There is obviously some controversy there.
I will admit I have low level dyslexia and that I find Comic Sans every hard to read, but as someone who routinely tells people to not confuse correlation for causation also I won't claim that my anecdotal data trumps the recommendations of a professional body.
I also use a pale yellow background for my slides these days; I'm actually going for a faux Art Deco look at the moment for no particularly good reason.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Paul Dowden,
Yeah. I've never used Comic Sans in lecture slides but I did tend to use Arial, which is just as bad for dyslexics ("I" and "l"). We kind of forget (or sometimes don't even know) just how hard it is for people with dyslexia to deal with written material, especially written material which might only be on screen for a short amount of time.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Can I just say, as someone who also teaches, that Comic Sans should be a regarded as a big no-no in any pedagogical material.
Comic Sans is incredibly difficult to read if you have, say, dyslexia or some other reading difficultly, due to the fact that certain characters look overly similar to one another. People without dyslexia don't tend to notice, but people with dyslexia would much prefer a nice and distinct Roman font whenever possible.
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I like how I can know go through my meagre archive of contributions and flag everything I've written as inappropriate. I've been such a bad boy...
Out of curiousity, why can't we have HTML in posts (I'm asking from a technical perspective as opposed to a whiny one). If we can't have HTML, can we have LaTeX instead?
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Hear hear for Stephen Judd. He's just written what I've been trying to phrase for days.
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I sometimes, but not always, rinse dishes after washing them. My flatmates seem to think this is weird. Admittedly, it's because, due to a lack of a second sink, I use a bucket, but the principle is sound, says I.
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When was the golden age of New Zealand (or American, or whatever) political discourse?
Conservatives say it happened back in the day when people showed more respect to their elders and the media didn't report every little dalliance with witchcraft and the like.
Liberals say it is happening now, but in countries our media shows no interest in.
Pragmatists end up teaching critical thinking courses in the hope that if it didn't happen in the past or isn't happening somewhere no one is looking, that their students might start doing it tomorrow.
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Meanwhile, philosophers continue to assert that the "What shape is the Earth?" is meaningless because no one has definitively proved it exists and, that even if it does, whether we live there.