Re: Boulder Pledge
Am Montag, 3. Februar 2003 19:11 schrieb Svein Ove Aas:
>> > Good Web browsers can ignore colors and such in the HTML.
>>
>> Is there any? Not Mozilla, not Netscape, not Konqueror, not Opera...
> It's perfectly possible to make it apply a custom CSS file to all pages,
oh, yes... but have you ever actually _used_ that? This Thread started about
aesthetics (different meanings of correctly wrapping lines in ASCII) and HTML
was mentioned to raise the look. When you apply custom settings to HTML
pages, they get really ugly, loosing readability. Think of
pixel-measure-sized tables layouted with very small font sizes which get
totally messed up when you change the font size.
When users use colours to structurize documents, it gets confusing without
colours.
When users use images as dividers, not displaying them messes up readability.
You _can_ actually ignore some things, but because people _will_ use those
things anyone caring about readability will have to be a slave of other
people's bad taste and live with green text on pink background and that when
you are in the office and open the mail program to ask someone about
something he wrote, the first thing he might see is the newest SPAM-devilered
nakedness in your inbox. This doesn't look very professional, as you might
agree...
This is why E-Mails should be made of plain text. Not Technology, not
security. U S E R S.
Thomas Ritter
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