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I've just checked his markup: AFAIK he doesn't use anything bad (never specifies Comics Sans or whatever). If you saw problems try checking the defaults of your browser, I have a slight impression you haven't adjusted these. You should be able to configure the default font etc. and even styles in most of the browsers.


Perhaps it just looks crappy on Chrome. I haven't touched the defaults.


Those titles look too large? OK, they're now changed to H3 instead of H2. Better?

Also, the text was written in the Lynx browser era before the <i> tag existed, so italics terms instead are all-caps. I've updated that.


Well then it's your problem! Allow me to claim that if it looks bad to you it's because you were lazy. The possibility of changing the defaults in the browsers is really there because tastes are different. All the pages without "styles" allow you to see them better than the others where the style is forced on you, once you adjust the default style. You set that only once for all such pages you're going to see. It's worth, much more than applying something every time you come to some such page which is what your suggestion was.


you're right. Its all the reader's fault.

Its not like any other media is expected to accomodate perception. They usually just give a short lecture to the viewer, right?

yes, its my fault for not squinting correctly.


You started with this:

> Somebody should make a tool that people can point to crappy websites and reformat them into something pleasant to read.

As already mentioned: there is already a tool and you need to use it only once -- it's the configuration of defaults of your browser.


if you say so. some day all schools will teach us exactly how so that authors needn't be bothered


How can anybody know your personal preferences? I also can't teach you how you should set them as I don't use the same browser as you. Try to remember: not everybody uses everything you do.

I don't understand what your problem is, apart from not knowing to use your browser. You've asked for a tool, you've received the answer -- it already exists, you're not accepting it again and again.




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