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It's interesting to see HTML from that time period too. Did HTML tags in <title> used to be rendered in browsers?

by gtk40 10y ago

iamtew 10y ago
In some, if not all, browsers it did. I remember <marquee> and <blink> used to be pretty popular :-)
aembleton 10y ago
<title> tags were rendered in Internet Explorer as a tooltip. Other browsers would only render the alt tag as a tooltip, but there was pressure on them to also render the <title> because IE was the dominant browser at the time.
- gtk40 10y ago
  Where would a <title> display as a tooltip? And how would that render the <sup> tags like in the <title> on this page?
- Sharlin 10y ago
  You're confusing the title element with the title attribute.
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endgame 10y ago
It's beautiful, is what it is. It loads instantly, doesn't download megabytes of crap and is very information-dense.
- Sharlin 10y ago
  Though I think I really have to write some user CSS or a bookmarklet or something for pages like this, namely: body { width: 50em; margin: auto; line-height: 1.6; } The Firefox Reader View is supposed to do that but it's way too narrow (30em I think) and way too often messes up some formatting essential to understanding the content.
  - dredmorbius 10y ago
    You can style Reader View using Stylish: https://userstyles.org/styles/118674/wide-reader-view https://userstyles.org/styles/118674/wide-reader-view Just grab the content descriptor and apply your own styles if that doesn't suit you. The key is: @-moz-document url-prefix("about:reader?") { ...
  - Sylos 10y ago
    Reader View being too narrow should get a fix in either the next release or the one after that, i.e. the fix is in Developer Edition, maybe already in Beta (I didn't check there), and a small change like that usually goes through Developer Edition and Beta in one release cycle each. Basically, they now have a setting for that in the toolbox to the left, so you can decide yourself how narrow or wide you want it. They also added a setting for the line height, so even though you didn't complain about that with Reader View, you can now change that, too, if you should ever need it.
- emodendroket 10y ago
  It probably didn't load instantly using contemporary setups.

It's interesting to see HTML from that time period too. Did HTML tags in <title> used to be rendered in browsers?

by gtk40 10y ago

It's interesting to see HTML from that time period too. Did HTML tags in <title> used to be rendered in browsers?

iamtew 10y ago

In some, if not all, browsers it did. I remember <marquee> and <blink> used to be pretty popular :-)

aembleton 10y ago

<title> tags were rendered in Internet Explorer as a tooltip. Other browsers would only render the alt tag as a tooltip, but there was pressure on them to also render the <title> because IE was the dominant browser at the time.

gtk40 10y ago
Where would a <title> display as a tooltip? And how would that render the <sup> tags like in the <title> on this page?
Sharlin 10y ago
You're confusing the title element with the title attribute.

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endgame 10y ago

It's beautiful, is what it is. It loads instantly, doesn't download megabytes of crap and is very information-dense.

Sharlin 10y ago
Though I think I really have to write some user CSS or a bookmarklet or something for pages like this, namely: body { width: 50em; margin: auto; line-height: 1.6; } The Firefox Reader View is supposed to do that but it's way too narrow (30em I think) and way too often messes up some formatting essential to understanding the content.
- dredmorbius 10y ago
  You can style Reader View using Stylish: https://userstyles.org/styles/118674/wide-reader-view https://userstyles.org/styles/118674/wide-reader-view Just grab the content descriptor and apply your own styles if that doesn't suit you. The key is: @-moz-document url-prefix("about:reader?") { ...
- Sylos 10y ago
  Reader View being too narrow should get a fix in either the next release or the one after that, i.e. the fix is in Developer Edition, maybe already in Beta (I didn't check there), and a small change like that usually goes through Developer Edition and Beta in one release cycle each. Basically, they now have a setting for that in the toolbox to the left, so you can decide yourself how narrow or wide you want it. They also added a setting for the line height, so even though you didn't complain about that with Reader View, you can now change that, too, if you should ever need it.
emodendroket 10y ago
It probably didn't load instantly using contemporary setups.