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I'd prefer seeing fonts specified as an offset from the browser's standard display format, and in ems rather than pixels or points. Body text must be at the user-specified size.

Contrast is another huge and growing issue. http://contrastrebellion.com/

I'm growing increasingly annoyed at sites which offer zero padding between text and display edges. At least a few pixels offset should be offered, and I prefer 50-200 for most full-screen displays.

Interstitials, pop-up nags, requests, quizzes, and the like increasingly make me likely to either close the a tab immediately, or use Firefox's RIP (Remove It Permanently) plug-in.

Fixed-position elements, especially headers and footers, but also sidebars, are similarly annoying. With the smaller overall screen resolutions of the past few years, and wide, short format 10:9 displays, vertical real estate is especially lacking. Sidebars frequently play poorly with mobile devices.

Most lately, I've found several sites which refuse to scroll vertically while on my mobile (Android). The Atlantic's mobile site among them, but there are others. Not a helpful feature.




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