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0 pointsstinkytaco9y ago0 comments

> then the page's lack of readability is more an indictment of the browser (which could do this tidying itself)

I strongly disagree with this. The browser should do nothing it is not explicitly made to do, which is one of the reasons it can still render HTML from 20 years ago. We used to have browsers that tried to do that kind of thing and we're only now extracting ourselves from that mess.

It is 100% on the website author to make their page more readable.

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massysett9y ago

The whole point of vanilla HTML is that it has few presentation details. It has some headings, bold, italic, and such. If the page does not specify margins or font size, the browser absolutely should set these so it is most readable on the device. If I write plain HTML today I am not optimizing for some VR headset that will be used twenty years hence. The headset should render the plain HTML in a manner faithful to the semantic markup, not so it looks the same way it looked on Netscape with a VGA screen.

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