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[ snip ][ It is getting to the point where browser
makers are enabling users to override just
about anything the web-designer does, which
is about (bloody) time. ]
"About time"? I agree, but wasn't that sort of the original idea
of HTML / the Web? that HTML would be a "logical markup" language,
I do not know what the story with separation
of content and style was in the early days,
I doubt 'presentation' was much of an issue
at all.
I think that's kind of what I liked about that stage --
content was organized with logical markup for simple
stuff -- numbered lists, unnumbered lists, levels
of headers, etc. -- and presented by the browser in
some bland but sensible way. But then I'm one of the
rare two-X-chromosome types who doesn't quite "get"
accessorizing, so what do I know.
I like the concept of *suggesting* style
but allowing the user to override it when
they feel like it, or need to do so.
[ Though if I get it right, it will be
the former, rather than the latter. ]
Fair enough, and reasonable.
I can see where you are coming from, but
I refuse to leave *everything* to the browser.
I consider Times New Roman (often) on a
white BG to be horrendous..
"To each his [ or her ] own"? Whatever!
I get pretty irritated when sites insist on choosing font sizes for
me, but the *really* annoying ones are the ones that display in some
unreadable mixture of font sizes unless the browser preferences are
set *just* *so*. No, I don't have any specific examples, and anyway
I think I've said my piece here.