From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 21/12/2025 11:27, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-21, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:20:30 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On the contrary, I am NOT a web developer, and I when I put up   
   >>> things on the web, I do not care about formatting: I make it as   
   >>> simple as I can ...   
   >>   
   >> Come on, it’s not that hard to learn a little CSS to keep your layouts   
   >> readable. The whole point about CSS was to separate form from content,   
   >> so that the same content could be repurposed to different rendering   
   >> scenarios.   
   >   
   > Yet these days a lot of webdesign, including uses of CSS, centers around   
   > catering only to a few browsers or devices and trying to achieve equal   
   > or similar design, instead of truly presenting content that gets   
   > rendered based on the platform/browser/device which once was a major   
   > point in the web.   
   That is, to be fair, almost impossible   
      
   You specify a tiny font that will fit and the  Apple browser defaults to   
   "minimum font size 11pt.   
      
      
   >   
   > I wish the web were a happier place. Fortunately there are still   
   > readable sites out there. May be outranked in search engines promoting   
   > ad-ridden scrapped content sites whose ranking arises out of being   
   > chrome-for-android-friendly, but they do exist.   
   >   
   My personal feeling is that people are using the wrong technology for   
   the purpose   
      
   And have no idea about ergonomics, and the web designers are just plain   
   lazy.   
      
   A bad workman blames his tools.   
      
   Its really about the quality and motives  of people putting content on   
   the web.   
      
   'Fuck the dumb consumer, they will buy any cheap shit if we throw it in   
   their faces'   
      
      
   --   
   There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale   
   returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.   
      
   Mark Twain   
      
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