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Typewriters have hard line breaks. This aesthetic makes RFCs harder to read than necessary on the majority of consumer devices sold since 2012. Form should mat
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
Typewriters have hard line breaks. This aesthetic makes RFCs harder to read than necessary on the majority of consumer devices sold since 2012.
Form should match the shape of the medium, not fight it.
- tedunangst 5y agoThe html version looks pretty good even on my iPhone. The words are small but legible. The text version is zoomed in, but wraps unnaturally, and is hard to read. The pdf is hard to read, too zoomed out. I think they did a pretty good job making a document that can be navigated as people are accustomed to, while adapting to the medium. The aesthetic is not without function.
- rhn_mk1 5y agoNot all RFCs have a HTML version available, sadly.