>>> They look according to the viewer's browser settings. This reveals the belief of the early 1990es that any visual design should be left at the discretion of

>>> They look according to the viewer's browser settings. This reveals the belief of the early 1990es that any visual design should be left at the discretion of the user. I remember first reading about HTML in Byte Magazine. The idea was that the tags were supposed to reflect the organization of the text, but not much more, so that your browser could render it according to your preferences. This included the possibility of special browsers for the blind, etc. When I finally got a chance to create a personal web page, that's how I designed it, and I still do so today. On the one hand, it looks great nowhere, but never fails to be intelligible on any browser, device, OS revision, etc. I never have to test it on more than one platform. Today, web design treats the browser as a general purpose graphical display, which means you have to consider every possible corner case of every browser and display size. It means that web pages can be as bad as software, because they are software. It means that making good web pages requires sweating the details to the same extent as good software, which is phenomenally labor intensive and consequently, rare.