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If a user turns off CSS then virtually no websites will render correctly for them. Adding a specific detection for that fail state is really just unnecessary b

If a user turns off CSS then virtually no websites will render correctly for them. Adding a specific detection for that fail state is really just unnecessary bloat.

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
You're kidding, right? Turning off CSS is used together with turning of CSS and images to improve the legibility of some websites. For example, using Medium with everything on is a pain. But if you switch off JS, CSS and images, very often the whole text of an article fills in one screen, is quite clean and really fast. Using Medium in this way actually becomes a pleasure (unless the images are a apart of the article) - you can navigate the website rarely using the mouse. In any case, I'm not alone in using the web in this way - turning everything on is just a waste of time and resources. You can check it easily yourself with an extension like disable-HTML that allows turning off these thing instantly.
- SquareWheel 7y ago
  Here is how Medium looks without CSS: https://i.imgur.com/MAalREE.png https://i.imgur.com/MAalREE.png If you find that more legible then all power to you, but nobody browses like that.
  - dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
    You forgot to turn off the images. When you do, you'll see how readable and blazing fast the website is.
  - flukus 7y ago
    That appears to be the index page rather than the article and is not too bad. But that's just the default browser layout, sites usually look a lot better in reader mode. Also, with js disabled your link is just an empty page, imgur is too incompetent to be able to show images without JS.
    - SquareWheel 7y ago
      Reader modes are usually clever enough to grab content from <article> tags, so it doesn't actually have to render the whole page. Plus they insert their own CSS, of course.
runarberg 7y ago
I think most text based browsers—for example Lynx—have CSS disabled. Also very few bots and almost no crawlers have CSS enabled.

If a user turns off CSS then virtually no websites will render correctly for them. Adding a specific detection for that fail state is really just unnecessary bloat.

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago

You're kidding, right? Turning off CSS is used together with turning of CSS and images to improve the legibility of some websites. For example, using Medium with everything on is a pain. But if you switch off JS, CSS and images, very often the whole text of an article fills in one screen, is quite clean and really fast. Using Medium in this way actually becomes a pleasure (unless the images are a apart of the article) - you can navigate the website rarely using the mouse. In any case, I'm not alone in using the web in this way - turning everything on is just a waste of time and resources. You can check it easily yourself with an extension like disable-HTML that allows turning off these thing instantly.

SquareWheel 7y ago
Here is how Medium looks without CSS: https://i.imgur.com/MAalREE.png https://i.imgur.com/MAalREE.png If you find that more legible then all power to you, but nobody browses like that.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
  You forgot to turn off the images. When you do, you'll see how readable and blazing fast the website is.
- flukus 7y ago
  That appears to be the index page rather than the article and is not too bad. But that's just the default browser layout, sites usually look a lot better in reader mode. Also, with js disabled your link is just an empty page, imgur is too incompetent to be able to show images without JS.
  - SquareWheel 7y ago
    Reader modes are usually clever enough to grab content from <article> tags, so it doesn't actually have to render the whole page. Plus they insert their own CSS, of course.

runarberg 7y ago

I think most text based browsers—for example Lynx—have CSS disabled. Also very few bots and almost no crawlers have CSS enabled.