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The good thing about serving plaintext is that the reader can view it any way they want. Want to read it using text-to-speech? Sure. Want to replace the font wi
by Pannoniae 2y ago
The good thing about serving plaintext is that the reader can view it any way they want. Want to read it using text-to-speech? Sure. Want to replace the font with Comic Sans size 30? Sure. Want to make the background turquoise? You also can :)
- persnickety 2y agoPlain text has text wrapping built in on any modern computer.
- kazinator 2y agoLine breaks don't play along with that though. You must represent each paragraph as one giant line, using two line breaks to separate paragraphs. (The problem with that is that excessive line widths are bad.)
- persnickety 2y agoThank goodness if you don't have hard line breaks you can choose your preferred line length yourself.
- wakawaka28 2y agoThis text has line breaks, which will be wack if you try to wrap them. So, you MUST open it on a screen that is wide enough to show the whole line at a comfortable font size. This is not code. I should not have to struggle to read this shit on my phone (which surely counts as "any modern computer) when even the most rudimentary HTML would fix the problem.
- mpalmer 2y agoI want text that wraps within a paragraph. Also all of that is extremely possible with HTML.
- timeon 2y ago> any way they want Except for the line breaks.