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		TeMPOraL on Jan 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML And that was the original goal. Sadly, the marketing people won and turned the web into a glorified magazine delivery service. Remember when browsers supported user styles out of the box and put them in a somewhat discoverable location?

SquareWheel on Jan 28, 2021 [–]

I remember users setting their default font sizes to 30px, then complaining when they hit the one piece of text on a website with an undefined text size.

User-defined formatting hasn't worked since CSS was introduced.

GoblinSlayer on Jan 28, 2021 | [–]

Works for me much better than CSS. HN sets font size to 10pt, any user setting is better than that.

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