Adding this CSS alone increases readability dramatically for the docs pages 
when viewing from a browser. 

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
*{font-family:"Tahoma", sans-serif !important;}

Whatever Apple's using now looks skinny and is is simply unsettling.

Now, if we could only get rid of all that useless and excessive white space on 
the pages, you might not need a whole monitor to use for docs display.

Honestly, on the Objective-C page, there's 1/2 an inch of empty space between 
the the summary text, the horizontal gray line and then another 1/2 inch 
between the horizontal gray line and the word, "Overview".

That's a wasted inch.  And on the page I just opened, 

https://developer.apple.com/reference/objectivec?language=objc

…there is PRECISELY 3 inches of empty white space to the left of all the text 
and on the right of all text.

Whichever art school student Apple hired to set the UI standards for "UX 
Experience" is simply an idiot.

Sadly, I am so old that I remember when Apple was known for its GOOD UI design 
and user experience, not this minimalist "let's use up all the user's browser 
real estate with glaring white space.  

This is not a fine art museum where every painting needs to be framed by 5 feet 
of white space.  These are dev docs that have to present the content in an easy 
to read manner and be RESPECTFUL of the screen real estate.  It's also NICE not 
to use full white as the background for presentation, because it's glaring and 
there are still people spending all day sitting under flouresent lights in 
offices staring at their screens.  This UI is PAINFUL and causes eye fatigue.  


On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:

> 
> On Nov 17, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Slipp Douglas Thompson wrote:
> 
>> No, you don't need to know HTML or CSS to get this to work.
>> 
>> Here's a basic step-by-step:
>> 
>> 1. Download & install the Stylish plugin/add-on/extension for your browser 
>> of choice.  The official userstyles.org Stylish is available for Chrome ( 
>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en
>>  ) and Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/ ), 
>> though it looks like someone else made a Safari version ( 
>> http://sobolev.us/stylish/ ).
>> 2. Download the 2 files from that gist.
>> 3. Open up the Stylish plugin/add-on/extension's UI and click the import 
>> button, choose one file, then click import and choose the other file.
>> 4. Enjoy better layout/styling whenever you visit a URL matching 
>> `http[s]://developer.apple.com/reference/*`.  ;-)
>> 5 (optional). Stylish for Chrome allows you to toggle styles on & off for 
>> the current page by clicking the toolbar icon for the extension (to the 
>> right of the address bar; the Stylish extension's icon is an “S” in a 
>> 4-colored square), so you can decide on-the-fly if you really want to use 
>> these changes or not.  I'd imagine Stylish for other browsers works 
>> similarly.
>> 6 (optional). Modify the CSS to your liking.  The most obvious point of 
>> customization would be the `font-size: 10pt !important;` line— you can 
>> change the `10pt` to `12pt` or `24pt` or `6pt` or whatever other numerical 
>> font size you please.
>> 
> 
> Oh, man.  What a godsend.  No more UI that looks like it was a graphic design 
> major's "testing limits" project.
> 
> 
> 
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