From: rowlett@access.net   
      
   On 06/08/2024 10:26 AM, Stan Brown wrote:   
   > On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:21:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:   
   >> The feature laden HTML files are chapters of the KJV Bible.   
   >> My goal is a pleasant reading experience for a set of Senior Citizens   
   >> with mild vision impairment [including myself]. As "everyone" has a   
   >> browser, avoiding JavaScript/CSS/etc and using only about a half-dozen   
   >> tags seems reasonable.   
   >   
   > IMHO, you are setting unrealistic criteria.   
      
   Chuckle. 60+ years of hardware/software agrees that's possible.   
   [ Took my first programming course as an E.E. student in 61/62 ;]   
      
   > Certainly avoid JavaScript in a static page where no input from the   
   > reader is expected. (In an introduction, you can tell readers about   
   > Ctrl-plus and Ctrl-minus, which most browsers interpret to change text size.)   
      
   That detailed control may be beyond some of my audience. At 80, I'm the   
   youngest.   
      
   >   
   > But eschewing CSS is, again IMHO, a mistake. You don't have to get   
   > too fancy, but for instance your work will benefit from setting   
   > linespacing larger than most browsers do.   
      
   That's to be seen.   
   My experiments with SeaMonkey on Debian does not foresee such a benefit.   
   An unstated goal is that what I produce will run without errors/warnings   
   on anything from HTML 2.0 on.   
      
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