Re:Exoticsilicon.com – Replying to comments about our web pa...
by manuelmoreale on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:37AM
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I'd argue there's a good middle ground to be found between the two extremes. We should style without overstyle.
Re:Exoticsilicon.com – Replying to comments about our web pa...
by prmoustache on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:44AM
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> I wish we could go back to a WWW where the browser was the user agent and the user was the authority on text size, font face, colors and so on.
This is still the case.
Your browser allows you to choose which font and size you want to use, as well as editing the css loaded on a tab and most browsers have extensions available to automatically load the css of your choice for a particular site.
The fact is that you choose not to use that freedom.
I wish we could go back to a WWW where the browser was the user agent and the user was the authority on text size, font face, colors and so on. Browsers have devolved from applications allowing users to browse hyperTEXT into these free-for-all canvases for web designers’ creativity.
Technically this should be solvable by using the browser’s “no styles” feature, but many web sites seem to be careless with the structure of their HTML such that “no styles” isn’t even readable.
I know this ship has sailed and my opinion is a fart in the wind at this point, but the web could have turned into a nice, fast, consistent way to publish structured and linked TEXT, but instead we got this “Remote Photoshop for Web Designers.”