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Re:Brian Kernighan's Home Page by inglor_cz on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:37AM (#29838917)
I like the plainness in general, but on contemporary monitors, this means that lines of text are very long, causing eye fatigue pretty quickly.

Typography is an art way more ancient than computers and I feel that it should be taken into account even on webpages; famously, Donald Knuth studied typography pretty deeply when designing TeX.

Re:Brian Kernighan's Home Page by Thrymr on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:33AM (#29841158)
This is from the old school of thought on the web, the HTML is only about content and semantics, and all the typography should be left to the browser (and user preferences). If the default font in your browser causes fatigue for you, you can change the defaults. This is hardly possible with most websites now without intrusive browser extensions.
Re:Brian Kernighan's Home Page by wrycoder on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:15AM (#29840868)
Works on any screen, desk, mobile. Works in Lynx from the command line.

Just narrow your window, maybe by changing the width of your sidebar.

Re:Brian Kernighan's Home Page by timeon on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:20PM (#29843495)
Just double click on Safari's title bar and the window will automatically adjust it's width.