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I'd written my own variant on this theme (based on the original and the Better Motherfucking Website), which applies some but generally minimal styling (14 CSS
by dredmorbius 2y ago
I'd written my own variant on this theme (based on the original and the Better Motherfucking Website), which applies some but generally minimal styling (14 CSS rules) to achieve a balance of minimalism, legibility, and functionality:
<https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/12/broadcom_ca_technologies/ https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/12/broadcom_ca_technolog...>
(Let me know if you're having issues reading that, I myself get a message "Referred from Pen Edward Morbius's motherfucking website" viewing under Firefox.)
What most strikes me is that with ever so slightly more advanced browser defaults the Web could be ever so much more readable. What I'd like to see is a standard set of default page layouts ("article", "overview", "lighttable", "catalogue", "discussion", say) along with a few more primitive elements (notes, equations, interactive tables with some basic spreadsheet functionality,[1] and threaded discussions most principally) which could address a huge chunk of what's now highly-styled, and often unreadable, Web designs.
The one thing I find not entirely universally suitable from my design is that the off-white / off-black background/text are not ideal for e-ink devices, though the overall effect remains generally readable.
Gwern's own website (<https://gwern.net/ https://gwern.net/>) strikes me as one of the absolute best highly-styled websites, and absolutely stands out amongst that class.
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Notes:
1. The ability to sort by specific columns, summarize quantitative columns by total and some univariate statistics (min, max, mean, median, mode, standard deviation), principally. Perhaps the ability to drive a graph based on selected columns as well.