From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 11:16:51 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Do your audience actually have browsers that are decades out of date?   
   If they do, and they do anything on the Internet, tney are leaving   
   themselves wide open to a world of trouble.   
      
   --   
   Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/   
   Shikata ga nai...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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