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[cellio]

The world wide web has been commonly available for approximately 8 years now. Don't you think it's about time that authors of web sites get the clue that web pages are not magazine pages? Specifically, you do not have authority over the rendering. Stop trying; you just get in the way of your would-be users. Sheesh.

I am thoroughly sick of: hard-coded font sizes ("gee, let's assume that everyone's vision is good"); colors that do not provide appropriate contrast unless the monitor brightness is cranked all the way up; graphics and layouts that assume maximum window size; artistes who value "prettiness" over function. Let my browser handle the rendering, and don't hamper that by hard-coding things that I'm allowed to set.

Comments

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

You must love "12-pt fonts are good enough for everyone" LiveJournal. :)
I may soon be complaining about this, since at my resolution 12pt (and even 10pt) roman fonts are perfectly readable, but Japanese fonts become half-illegible.

[cellio]

Hebrew doesn't look so good at that size, either.

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

Are you using LJ in Hebrew? :)

[cellio]

Not regularly. If the font were readable, I'd pop into Hebrew from time to time in a "learn by osmosis" attempt.

Yes!

[goljerp]

I agree!

I'm also sick of E-mail programs that add horrible HTML to messages which have the net result of making the message unreadable whether you render the HTML (6 point times on my mac is not readable, sorry) or not (10 million useless html tags kinda hinder the actual text).

Re: Yes!

[cellio]

And then there are the ones that send the message twice, once in plain text and once in HTML. You might not even notice if your mail reader is smart about such things, unless you archive your mail in text files and page through it later. Then you discover all this HTML crap between your messages.

I read mail with a text-based mailer on a Unix box, so at least I never see the 6-point-font problem that you describe. However, if the message is only HTML (no plain-text version), then I simply delete it without trying to read it. I'm not going to crawl through the tags to try to figure out what it was about. If the message is from someone I actually know, I send a note explaining the problem.

Re: Yes!

[goljerp]

The main culprit at the moment is my Shul, tho... I don't know if they know enough to send it "plain text" (I have a feeling they're using the same word document they print out for the weekly bulletin.)

For spam/adverts/etc, though, I don't bother reading the HTML junk.