Nearly impossible to read that article with that stupid bar thing hanging over t...

antidoh · on May 12, 2012

I hate these. Who wouldn't.

Firefox: View/Page Style/No Style turns the page into plain, readable text.

Think of all the effort someone went through, to take perfectly good content and deface it.

Tyr42 · on May 12, 2012

I had to click back to the site after reading your comment, as I didn't even notice it, so YMMV.

Groxx · on May 12, 2012

Eh, that's one of the less offensive ones I've encountered. Narrower than most, and not animated.

edit: oh, it's just a bit buggy. make your window narrower, and it disappears :) that makes it way better than most I've seen.

jlgreco · on May 12, 2012

http://i.imgur.com/nw6TM.png

That's what it looks like to me with my browser maximized. How people design things like this and don't do a quick check to make sure it works well for different reasonable browser window dimensions is beyond me.

ralphsaunders · on May 12, 2012

I employ the 'readable' bookmarklet for situations like this. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

jlgreco · on May 12, 2012

Yeah, that's what I eventually ended up doing. I only bothered to turn on my bookmark toolbar and use it in this case though because I had a particularly strong interest in reading this article. In most other cases I would have passed it by.

Groxx · on May 13, 2012

Did you try making it narrower? It hides the floaty sidebar thing when the window is narrower than the main page content.

Totally unintuitive, but better than leaving it there, which is what most sites do.

FuzzyDunlop · on May 12, 2012

Actually impossible when you want to zoom in, because the text is fairly small.