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Aaaargh, that page is impossible to read. I would recommend using width:600px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; for the div#base and definitely kill that center text-align with a huge cannon.

Took me a while to understand that this is a Linux library to "talk to iOS stuff"



It is distracting how your comment has framed discussion as, "this is ugly or unoptimized for the target audience because x." What I was hoping to read here is a discussion about how this library improves (or falls short of improving) upon attempts made to build open libraries to talk to iDevices in the past.

There is a place for aesthetic critique. I would rather see this project focus on the cool work they are clearly doing, and forget about the margins.


Yes and no. I agree that pages like this don't really need much prettifying, but center aligning text and expanding it to page width really does make it unreadable in this instance.


If it only had just been ugly or unoptimized I would have agreed. Currently it is pretty much unreadable unless you use firebug to edit the CSS.


What keeps you from asking those questions then? Go ahead! Thankfully the other comments seem to focus on the actual project.

Now your reply gave my comment way too much impact on the discussion list.




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