Comments on: This Week in Boost

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:03:26 +0000

The comment font is taller than the blog font, at least in my Firefox. FF can remember how much to zoom text per site, but either the blog font is too small or the comment font is too large; I can’t find a happy medium. Can you make the too a little more balanced? Then I can zoom FF the way I want it, without having to resize my window (which didn’t work anyway).

By: alfC

alfC — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:35:26 +0000

Steven, great posts. If you can, please write a post with an easy introduction to Proto for dummies. At moments it seems that it is very powerful but its usage is totally misterious to me. I am sure is somebody can explain it in plain english is you. thanks.

By: lego

lego — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:10:33 +0000

The use of operator overloading seems a bit like abuse.

Why would I prefer

m = matrix | transpose;

over

m = transpose(matrix);

That aside it looks good.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:07:59 +0000

Hrm; my previous comment seems to have been eaten, so I'll try again in brief: comment out "visibility: hidden;" from line 180 of style.css and the page will be visible with JS turned off.

Presumably it works under lynx because that browser ignores CSS.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:45:48 +0000

The problem is on line 175 of style.css:

 
page {
 
  font-size: 1.6em;
  line-height: 1.66em;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  visibility: hidden;
}

Remove that "visibility: hidden;" and the page will be visible with JS turned off. The file required.js has a line that says:

this.page.style.visibility = 'visible'; // hides the initial pageload blip

so presumably making this change will re-enable the initial pageload blip, whatever that is.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:31:37 +0000

Since most “nicely designed” sites use quasi-unreadable fonts, you might like to check out Greasemonkey. Here’s my GM script for this page, which does away with the stylish-but-strain-inducing low-contrast font color.

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Cpp-next.com
// @namespace      http://aaa.com
// @include        http://cpp-next.com/*
// @require        http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

$('.entry').css({ 'font-family': "Serif" }); $('body').css({ color: 'black' });

By: Dat Chu

Dat Chu — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:24:25 +0000

This math library is indeed nicely done. But I think it is a bit overlapped with what is already done with C++ wrapper for OpenCV 2.0 . Then again, those who already have Boost might not want to install yet another library.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:05:16 +0000

Very nice. I like this library a lot more than CGAL already… not that we’re all about competition when it comes to geometry libraries (they all have different focuses… but CGAL isn’t very friendly for especially some of the expansion I sought to do with intersection testing).

Now, I just need to see if you can cleverly wrap this up with some gfx optimizations.

Thanks again for doing this column. I’ve been looking forward to GGL for a while now.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:33:25 +0000

I too have noticed the fonts are rather large. But I tried your resizing trick and it worked! No more zooming just for this site!

The only problem is, see, all the content in my other tabs are NORMAL, and they don't work so well with a narrow window, and I have to zoom ALL of them if I want to accommodate this one site without zooming its text.

So, stop telling people to make their windows narrow, this is quite wrong. Fix your site so it doesn't do loony things with text and people will stop complaining about the large fonts. Set the size to 13pt and forget about it.

By: Dave Abrahams

Dave Abrahams — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:10:01 +0000

Hmm, are you sure? For me that just makes the page come up blank when JavaScript is off.