On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:59:06PM -0600, Kurt H Maier wrote: > In my estimation, the web is a lost cause. As time goes on, it's more > and more a tool that is abused by idiots cramming too much broken > "functionality" in them, and most browsers are just platforms from > which to launch bad ideas. The whole thing was never designed for > fine-grained control of how a website was rendered, and you're asking > for a lot of heartache by attempting to make it work that way.
Well, I realised that too, but somehow felt the need for communicating these ideas to other people (most people will just believe in something, if it's repeated often enough). I don't want fine-grained control, but to make a website somewhat typographically useable, you need to set the paddings and margins so that they fit thogether with the text. Therefore you have to clear a lot of the default stylesheet definitions. That seems insane to me. > On my website[1], I use very basic html, and include a stylesheet > basically to set colors I like and a maximum width for the main body > of the text. I also use CSS to move some of the navigation stuff off > to the side, but other than that, it's up to the reader to configure > his browser to make things presentable. The more I think about this topic the more I think I will simply test my stylesheet in Firefox, links, dillo and netsurf. I will actually write an essay on the problems I had developing the site, although I think this won't make the Internet better. > 1 - http://www.madleet.net/cgi-bin/blog.sh $ curl http://madleet.net/blog.css 2> /dev/null | wc -l 24 Very minimalistic. > # Kurt H Maier Regards, Matthias-Christian
