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Re:Ending our Medium integration by avian on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:57AM (#19035021)
Funny how these things go in circles. I remember the time where many webpages were unstyled, letting you freely choose the font, size, colors, etc. in browser preferences. But that was considered ugly and non-user friendly. Now with various readability buttons we're just moving back to that.
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Re:Ending our Medium integration by Sharlin on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:34AM (#19035849)
Without custom CSS, you couldn't, however, fix the single most important readability issue about unstyled HTML: add reasonable margins and keep body width at the recommended 60–70em or so. Readability modes finally get that right.
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Re:Ending our Medium integration by avian on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:46AM (#19035979)
Right. I forgot to mention that we also used to be able to resize the browser to the width we personally found comfortable for reading. I guess that's something reader modes still have to rediscover.
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Re:Ending our Medium integration by Sharlin on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:02PM (#19037503)
Sure. But lines running from window border to window border are still hard to read. The margins have to be clean negative space.
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