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I'm actually concerned that CSS or any other control over styling that is foisted upon the client is where the slippery slope begins. Once you add styling, the
by amiga-workbench 6y ago
I'm actually concerned that CSS or any other control over styling that is foisted upon the client is where the slippery slope begins. Once you add styling, the photoshop driven developers arrive and demand pixel perfection, then the never ending demands of more bloat and complexity follow.
I used to look at Gopher (and more recently Gemini) as too stunted to be useful, but perhaps they are right to nip these things in the bud.
- emptyparadise 6y agoI'd say something about just wanting PDFs with text reflow and hyperlinks, but apparently the PDF standard includes a JavaScript library for some inexplicable reason.
- Shared404 6y ago> the PDF standard includes a JavaScript library for some inexplicable reason. Indeed. Which also makes PDF's a dangerous file type to use.
- amiga-workbench 6y agoIn a similar vein I wish that email clients could support markdown message bodies instead of HTML.
- krapp 6y agoMarkdown is HTML. Its purpose is to be converted into HTML. It includes the entirety of HTML in its spec. You can't support one without supporting the other.
- zzo38computer 6y agoA subset should be invented which lacks HTML.