From: Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Worg] Proposing a few CSS changes
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:29:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1lf3jbuzn.fsf@nobis-it.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfxropnl.fsf@alphapapa.net> (Adam Porter's message of "Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:46:06 -0500")
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
> So I think it's very important to respect the user's settings,
> especially for long texts and documentation (i.e. not the "home page"
> parts of Web sites whose purpose is to present projects as a whole).
+1.
HTML pages are neither books nor PDFs nor advertising columns. I have
a LaTeX background and I like to tweak the micro-typography of my PDF
documents (and I find many documents out there quite ugly and hard to
read). Therefore I think I understand and kind of sympathize with
Timothoys point of view.
But the web is quite a different beast. User choices like
Window/viewport size, fonts (serif, non-serif, size,...) are way too
often ignored and even battled against. Sometimes I get the
impression, that every time a web designer gets informed about a new
way for users to override design decisions they try to block these
possibilities - and in most cases to the disadvantage of users.
Yes, today seldom people play with the font settings in their
browsers. But why? I think, because they see that these settings seem
to never really work. Even if you configure your browser to ignore
font settings from HTML/CSS and always use the browser settings, many
pages will be next to unreadable - the layout breaks down, if the
wrong fonts/sizes are used.
Therefore I support Adams wish to honor the configuration of users.
The web should be more seen as a documentation system, not an
installation of art.
--
Until the next mail...,
Stefan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-26 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-24 2:37 [Worg] Proposing a few CSS changes Adam Porter
2021-09-24 8:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-09-25 13:58 ` Bastien
2021-09-26 0:25 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-25 19:51 ` Timothy
2021-09-26 0:37 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-26 3:42 ` Timothy
2021-09-26 5:46 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-26 8:29 ` Stefan Nobis [this message]
2021-09-26 8:56 ` Timothy
2021-09-26 10:40 ` Stefan Nobis
2021-09-27 15:45 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-09-27 18:01 ` Thomas S. Dye
2021-09-26 12:12 ` Max Nikulin
2021-10-02 8:17 ` Timothy
2021-10-02 11:11 ` Adam Porter
2021-10-02 11:29 ` Timothy
2021-10-02 12:07 ` Adam Porter
2021-10-02 12:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-10-02 18:24 ` Thomas S. Dye
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