A fair point, although wasn't there a thread on text-only news sites just today? Perhaps they wouldn't look like garbage. I realize I'm arguing from a semantic

A fair point, although wasn't there a thread on text-only news sites just today? Perhaps they wouldn't look like garbage. I realize I'm arguing from a semantic-html world, now long lost. However, we _are_ left w/ a situation where straight text is rendered poorly (style du jour & out the control of the user), alongside user interface components that are a huge step backwards from prior models. Maybe in another few decades we'll sort out this pickle.