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As someone with a visual impairment, when I open that website I see someone that wants to put weird internet idealism above not giving me eye strain. This attit
by KyeRussell 4y ago
As someone with a visual impairment, when I open that website I see someone that wants to put weird internet idealism above not giving me eye strain. This attitude is a bit of oldschool internet culture that I’m glad to see die off.
- WorldMaker 4y agoOriginally it was the job of browsers to provide good readable non-eye straining, user controllable default styles. In the browser wars it was decided few websites "wanted" good defaults, they'd rather "no defaults" so that every website could be styled as its own special snowflake (to meet brand goals or design team whims) and so default styles became a lowest common denominator trapped in the 90s. Eventually browsers rediscovered that need to provide good defaults and now call it "Reading Mode" and force users to opt in to that behavior on a page by page basis. Something lately I've been wondering is if there should be a way to signal to a browser "this is an intentionally minimal HTML page, please style it by default as if the user chose Reading Mode".