Comments on: The colour of the internet

By: Davey

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:16:51 +0000

It fails after you choose an install location. Closes with some unexpected error. It’s still in beta. ¬_¬

By: Ben

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:17:57 +0000

I’m also tempted to install it, but I have only just gotten my machine running properly after some video card updates and AV patches, so I am not risking it.
Probably wouldn’t work with Opera anyway.

By: Adam

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:13:46 +0000

Same here… might try it out on one of the computers at work though, I don’t care for them so much.

It reminds me of the time, when I was seven, when a computer magazine printed the code for a program that would double the memory of my 48k spectrum.

I was sceptical. I knew that it was a physical limitation, rather than a software thing. But I was curious enough to spend three days labouriously typing it all in.

When I finally ran the program all that happened was the phrase ‘April Fools’ printed on screen. A few thousand lines of code to do that.

That was the day that I learned two things. 1. Never trust software you don’t trust. 2.Always check to make sure it isn’t April 1st.

By: Erika

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:36:37 +0000

That’s hilarious.

I’m really curious what happens when you install the “Squant plugin”… but I’m paranoid and I don’t want to install software from an obvious joke site. (Even if, in violation of all laws of physics, there were actually a fourth primary color, there would be no way to make your monitor “squant-capable” just by installing a plugin. So I have no idea what the plugin actually does.)

By: Adam

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:57:31 +0000

We aim to please… slowly, after months of nagging.

By: golfwidow

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:25:44 +0000

I love being able to see the comic on the feed.

By: Adam

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:22:32 +0000

Brilliant… it reminds me of the colour greem.

By: justine

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:21:14 +0000

huh. i like it.

By: Adam

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:18:44 +0000

The wysiwyg editor didn’t work for some people, and for others it proved a bit daunting… I am thinking of re-instating it again, but I need to find a limited version with just a few easy functions rather than the cumbersome one I used.

As for the text, that’s a fair point, I will increase it for the purpose of readability.

Ms Office is the tool of the devil. When I worked as a typesetter about half of my time was spent correcting its misguided formatting… like where it wants you to put commas when using the word ‘which’.

It’s a Microsoft product (that has to be spelled with a capital) so the internet is considered important as an entity, a proper noun… wheras I think the majority of its users see it purely like a road, or a telephone…

By: Davey

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:53:29 +0000

The color of the internet?

http://www.negativland.com/squant/

By: Ben

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:52:36 +0000

Red and Blue.
Cos that makes my head spin.
And every time you refresh the page or click a link in the archives, you should get a free puppy.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:43:31 +0000

I think links should be underlined. That’s the traditional way to show them. I wouldn’t necessarily go with pure black and white since that can be hard on the eyes; it’d be a bit too stark, wouldn’t it?

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:06:02 +0000

Whenever I type “internet” in MS Office programs the spell-checker insists that I capitalize it: “Internet”.

Say, what happened to that WYSIWYG editor on the comments? Or is it still there and just not coming up for me?

The only real style thing I would suggest is bigger text, but that’s because I sit rather far away from my monitor and so sometimes I either have to squint or increase the text size (which screws up formatting).