2009/2/18 Matthias-Christian Ott <o...@mirix.org>: > since several years I have been planed to launch a personal website. I > used to do quite aesthetical web design before I have subscribed to > minimalism. What annoyed me then and now was CSS and its implementations > in modern browsers. > > When I tried to design a minimalist website (just some typographic > enhancements to make texts more read- and printable), I realised that > there seems to be no agreed standard for a default CSS stylesheet merely a > recommendation from the CSS standard [1] (which is incomplete) and a lot > of people seem to be concerned about resetting the browser CSS defaults - > even the W3C does so in their stylesheets [2]. Most people seems to have > installed nearly all popular browsers, test with those and incorporate > workarounds if necessary. > > All in all this seems very absurd to me and I would like to know how > you approached this problem. > > At the moment I'm just aware of The Anti-web Manifesto [3] that someone > linked to on this mailing list. Although I mainly subscribe to it, > browsers like Mozilla Firefox have terrible default typographic style > and using text-mode browsers like links often seems to be only solution > when reading longer texts. > > Any ideas?
I think the only way is dropping HTML and CSS altogether and going with something new. I'd be very interested in contributing. I think the replacement should not only focus on presentation but equally on forming a base for less suckish applications which are highly network transparent. Kind regards, --Anselm