Re: Attracting newbies
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Daniel B. wrote:
>>>> HTML adapts to the user's browser pane width (well, if the author
>>>> doesn't break HTML's ability to do that).
>>> Again, to be pedantic, it's CSS that controls the layout, hence the
>>> author simply provides multiple CSS, which is what it's designed to do.
>
> What do you mean by "the author simply provides multiple CSS"?
>
> If _you_ want to look at something in a full-screen browser window and
> _I_ want to use a half-screen-width browser window (e.g., to see two
> web pages side by side), how is an author going to provide multiple CSS
> stylesheets to cover both of us? What about every size in between?
>
>
>> Just to be historical, HTML text adapted to the user's browser long
>> before CSS had even been invented.
>
> Of course! (Why do you point that out?)
>>>> The user can choose
>>>> how much screen width to use for a browser, the browser can
>>>> wrap regular text and tables to fit, and the user doesn't have
>>>> to scroll horizontally to read the bulk of the page.
>>> And the user can also provide their own CSS too, should they wish.
>
> Right. But the reader shouldn't have to re-write a page's style sheet
> just to be able to read it conveniently.
Sorry to butt in here, but I think a point needs to be made. A large
number of modern websites do not allow the viewer to choose how to view
the page. If the browser window is too large, empty space will appear
on both sides. If the browser window is too small, the view will be
cut. If the page is well written, scrollbars may appear. Quite
frequently webmasters choose fonts that are so small that they are
almost non-legible, and one must increase the text size.
Hopefully this is a fad. The whole idea of HTML was to allow the
browser to adapt to the user. Someone decided to throw that ideology
out the window.
Joe
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