The LDP website has a new fresh look, very
white, with lots of little dabs of green, all of it giving it a bottled-water,
air-freshener, hygienic-products commercial look. In fact, it’s so white that
it leaves two wide blanks at the margins in the default 100% zoom setting on my
Chrome browser*. Anyone who intends to vote for the LDP must be hoping that it’s
doing it as a deliberate, aesthetic decision and not because it ran out of
content.
Counterbalancing the understatement of the home
page are the full policy platform** and its summary in PDF format—which spill
off screen at the margins, forcing me to zoom out to 90%、 or scroll sideways to
read each line, which really isn’t an alternative. Is the message here: We’re
really thinking big? Or is it: Rats! We should get a refund from Dentsu/Hakuhodo/Whoeverdidthewebsite?
Some red breaks into the new-look home page
in its headline features frame when Shinzo Abe, Shigeru Ishiba, or the LDP slides
in. The public appears to be represented by the color green. You’re green, we’re
green, but our leaders are red hot, it seems. And a dark, gray monotone reiterating
the LDP call for “an independent constitution” reminds us that it was a sad, sad
day when the GHQ foisted that linguistically-challenged*** contraption on us.
We also know that Abe’s people like
mah-jong. Proof? The platform documents feature the word Ikki-tsūkan, (一気通貫), which is a
rough mah-jong equivalent of, say, a high pair or low treys, depending on how
you achieve it. Is this Showa-retro? Except there are lots and lots of katakana
words, which is probably not good for old people, who are, after all, the LDP’s
core demographic.
I’ll actually be reading the documents
later in the day. Wish me luck.
* Am I the only person that stopped
using Firefox when it no longer featured the old Chrome toolbar? Why won’t Mozilla
develop its own online browser? It was a great opportunity to take over the
itinerant browsing market. Instead, I owe my soul to the company store, so to
speak.
** should we stop calling them
manifestos? The DPJ kind of gave it a bad name, and it always reminded me of
Lenin and Stalin anyway.
*** That’s at least one thing
that everyone, from left to right, can agree on.
3 comments:
Hm, I don't get your comment on Firefox? What is missing?
I normally use Firefox, but try out Chrome now and again. They seem almost identical in use, so no reason for me to switch. And I rely on stuff like Zotero for work, so I wouldn't dump Firefox altogether anyhow.
The one complaint that I had about Firefox as a heavy browser (browserer?) was that it would become slower with use and eventually come crashing down and I'd have to reboot it again. More generally, Chrome had a cleaner, quicker feel to it, though that could very well be subjective.
There's at least one function for which Chrome doesn't work properly, though, which is why I do my online jigsaw puzzles on Firefox.
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