From 327c80e884b0c8703897d322502ebf6c66af1b1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jmtd Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:18:35 -0400 Subject: saw typesetter-css and was reminded of my appeal against the anti-theme as default --- doc/todo/Modern_standard_layout.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/todo/Modern_standard_layout.mdwn b/doc/todo/Modern_standard_layout.mdwn index bb6356a6d..6fd41b7dd 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Modern_standard_layout.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Modern_standard_layout.mdwn @@ -71,3 +71,15 @@ Thanks, [[users/Jon]]. (2017-12-28) 9 month ping, does [[Joey]] or [[smcv]] have any kind of opinion on this matter, subsequent to my last comment? I ask because both of your takes on the issue are from way back in 2011. — [[Jon]] (2018-09-24) + +---- + +saw this "typesetter CSS" and was reminded of the anti-theme (and my 18 month old appeal to revisit that decision): +[typesetter-css](https://screwtapello.gitlab.io/typesetter-css/example/demo.html): + +> HTML is a semantic markup language, but web-browsers' default presentation of semantic HTML is more based on compatibility with decades-old browsers than with readability. There are browser-addons that will take a page, strip out the presentational markup and try to present the result in a readable format, but that shouldn't be necessary if you've got sensible semantic markup to begin with. +> +> Typesetter.css is a custom stylesheet designed to present generic, semantic HTML in the most readable way possible. + +The readability problems with unstyled HTML that this project talks about are exactly why I think the anti-theme +as default for the main site should be revisited. — [[Jon]] (2019-08-16) -- cgit v1.2.3