minor CSS suggestion for blog author-byline readability

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Feb 15 04:04:46 UTC 2017


Royce Williams <royce at tycho.org>:
> Quoting myself on IRC today:
> 
> CSS/presentation request for the blog: something to visually separate
> the byline from the text ... either more whitespace, or a line or two,
> or a different color, etc.
> 
> My eyes keep trying to read the first line as:
> 
> "One of the earliest technical decisions the NTPsec project made was
> to write ESR"
> 
> ... and the second line as:
> 
> "our code to the standard implied by POSIX and C99 (more formally,
> "POSIX- Feb 14, 2017", etc.
> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with how CSS is shared across the main site, the
> blog, etc. This gets the job minimally done enough to get the point
> across, against http://blog.ntpsec.org/css/main.css:
> 
> --- main.css    2017-02-14 13:58:23.000000000 -0900
> +++ main.css.new        2017-02-14 16:19:11.712288862 -0900
> @@ -277,7 +277,11 @@
>  .post-meta {
>    float: right;
>    font-size: 16px;
> -  color: black; }
> +  color: black;
> +  padding-left: 8px;
> +  padding-bottom: 12px;
> +  border-left: 1px solid silver;
> +  border-bottom: 1px solid silver; }
> 
>  .post-link {
>    font-size: 24px; }
> 
> [end diff]
> 
> Someone else will surely want to make it more progressive-y, etc. I
> did try it at different screen sizes and it seemed OK (since it was
> already done with a simple, clean float).

I pushed this, and it works.  Nice job!

Note that main.css is generated and I had to mod a file called main.scss 
that was templated (or something) by the Jekyll blog engine.
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