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Luyt
on Feb 9, 2011
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Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and ...
That's how web pages were back in 1991, and how they should look again in the future: just plain raw content and links, no frills and graphic fluff.
sfphotoarts
on Feb 9, 2011
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why?
the readability of many modern pages is considerably improved over plain text.
mquander
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Oh, is that so? Last I checked, people frequently install browser plugins just to turn modern pages back into single-column plain text pages.
robryan
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This page is no exception, looks way better in readability than it does by default. The main issues are the 100% width and the font/size.
mquander
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Sure, but the font and size are exactly what you are free to control as you please with your browser.
spicycat
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The readability of the page is supposed to be the responsibility of the browser, not the page.
glhaynes
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The intent of the "founding fathers" isn't really applicable anymore.
pnathan
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My Readability plugin and I disagree with you.
rsaarelm
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I'd be all for a CSS-less minimal page style except for the fact that it comes with no margins and produces unreadably long lines on my browser window that's full-screen most of the time.
gregoryf
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Yes! Some more color or graphics are okay, but just the minimal, please thank you.
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