Erik Moeller wrote:
Don't get me wrong - I agree we absolutely need to get smarter about text flow and measure. There's a lot of work involved in getting this right, though. I'd recommend sorting out any remaining issues with the typography refresh, and building a separate beta feature for text flow/measure experiments, so we can push the other changes into prod soon unless there are major reasons not to.
Yep.
Relatedly, all beta experiments are currently "timeless." No version number, no "last updated" date, etc. We may want to reconsider this, as we're already seeing confusion between iterations (i.e., typography refresh refresh or typography update update).
Jared Zimmerman wrote:
Time permitting I want Jon to experiment with http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/ for article pages.
There's no deadline. :-) FlowType.JS looks really neat, but I agree that putting any of the layout experiments in the typography update is jarring.
Imagine a likely scenario, such as article talk where flow and an article might benefit from being side by side in a 2 column layout.
This is an area where I think real-world statistics would be helpful. Optimizing for the large monitor crowd is easy because designers often have (several) large monitors. But I think we need to know what readers/users actually have out in the wild to figure out how to best prioritize resources.
MZMcBride