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It's crazy to me that a bunch of people that I don't know and who don't know me nevertheless separately and repeatedly duplicate attempts to pick the correct fo
by politician 6y ago
It's crazy to me that a bunch of people that I don't know and who don't know me nevertheless separately and repeatedly duplicate attempts to pick the correct font, size, weight, line length and line height for me, and the browser client running on my machine let's them do this with only the most minimal and transient fig leaf support for personalization.
The tools we use to access and share information are broken.
- ryandrake 6y agoBingo. Browsers have given away so much power and control to web designers that should be in the user's hands. I know what size text I like. I know what font and colors I prefer. Why make it so difficult to configure my browser to use them, and so easy for web developers to override my preference? The John Gruber site frequently comes up here as the poster boy for this problem: I have an enormous 27" beautiful monitor, but he just -decides- for me that I should be reading text in a tiny narrow horizontal sliver of that screen. Who the hell are you to tell me how I should be reading text on my screen? And the browsers are complicit.