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A better question is why websites in general feel the need to use custom colors and fonts for text. Users should set their own preferences in the browsers and t
by phkahler 3y ago
A better question is why websites in general feel the need to use custom colors and fonts for text. Users should set their own preferences in the browsers and that should be that. OTOH if I continue with that argument I should shun the pale background color which I actually kind of like. OTOH part of why I like it is because it sets the "page" apart from the unused portions of the browser window, which I'm not going to get into, as it really opens a huge can of worms that are mostly opinion ;-) (hint from me: why do we run everything maximized?)
- ploum 3y agoTake your point to its extreme conclusion and you will reinvent Gemini. That’s why I like Gemini so much (and developed my own command line browsers which display the content of a web page in the terminal without caring about CSS/colors/etc)
- ryandrake 3y agoI agree. User preferences should always override a site’s color, typeface, text size choices. The browser is the user agent after all, not the web developer’s agent. If I want a high contrast color scheme, or large fonts because of my vision, I should simply be able to set it in my browser’s settings and be done, not have to futz with extensions and injecting CSS into each site.