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I'm going to take this as further evidence for my crackpot theory that it should have never been possible for websites to define their own styling. Websites sho
by philwelch 5y ago
I'm going to take this as further evidence for my crackpot theory that it should have never been possible for websites to define their own styling. Websites should serve semantic content and the browser should enable the user to apply their own preferred styling.
- bspammer 5y agoI think it would be a shame for every website to look the same. Not all information is textual - we’re visual creatures and a lot of meaning can be conveyed through color, layout, font choices etc.
- philwelch 5y agoThat's what PDF is for ;) But yes, that's an obvious objection and if I had good responses to all the obvious objections, I would have something more than a crackpot theory. At the same time, I think the web as it is now is the worst possible state of affairs. There's no clear distinction between content and UI. You can theoretically use predefined UI elements, but nobody ever does and if they do, they can (and almost always do) completely change their behavior.