On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:51:52AM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > On 2/18/09, Matthias-Christian Ott <o...@mirix.org> wrote: > > minimalism. What annoyed me then and now was CSS and its implementations > > in modern browsers. > > css cannot be implemented (..in a suckless way) > > > 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. > > don't try to fix the browser, you can't
I know. > it leads to a chaos where each website has different versions for each > browser, display media, resolution,.. On my 15.4" WXSGA+ display browsing some sites is really a pain, because the use font sizes measured in pixel and limit their content to 500px or so. > there is no way to do "nice in all browsers" page (or pixel correct > presentation) > (flash is obviously not an option since it's not (and cannot be) > supported by most browsers) Flash is proprietary software and therefore not even worth thinking about. > interactivity has the same issues (no way to do it properly) > > > 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, > > http://port70.net/webless suggests a least common denominator > imho this is the most sane approach currently (although limited in many ways) Yes, but have you tried to read a long text (I tend to be verbose) in Mozilla Firefox? > > browsers like Mozilla Firefox have terrible default typographic style > > the user is responsible for changing the default style (or using a sane > browser) Theoretically I agree, but how many users do so? Additionally I don't want to know what happens if you change your stylesheet and view other CSS-styled websites (it will probably break the layout I suppose). Regards, Matthias-Christian