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Hardwired widths, inaccesibility on small screens etc. were always annoying, but in many respects, I'm retrograde enough to actually prefer the clunkier designs
by interfixus 9y ago
Hardwired widths, inaccesibility on small screens etc. were always annoying, but in many respects, I'm retrograde enough to actually prefer the clunkier designs and layouts of the paleolithic web-era. No-nonsense, unambiguous, clearly delineated sections, and a healthy emphasis on content over form.
- ryandrake 9y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I always understood that if you write basic, un-styled HTML, you get flexible widths and small screen support for free. You have to deliberately decide to make it worse by hardwiring widths and element sizes. Is this not true?
- interfixus 9y agoOh, absolutely. And all kinds of horror were perpetrated against html in the nineties. My point was that even so, I found - and find - lots to like in the websites of yore.
- II2II 9y agoYou are correct. On the other hand, readability would be reduced on larger screens since the lines would be longer. (This could have been address by both users and web browser developers, but website designers took a different approach.)