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@malte Interesting. That’s one of the things I’m most interested in, because there’s a lot of debate over how to respond to text zoom/custom font sizes on web pages.
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@malte The thing is, web developers have the ability to make sites respond like that when you set the font size in your browser. It’s just most choose not to.
@VamptVo Yeah, configuring default font sizes in browsers is rather pointless. Also I don't understand why browsers don't come with beautiful CSS by default. Why does bare HTML has to look like 1991?
@malte That’s a good question. I think the W3C mandates certain default styles, but also the barebones defaults are good because they don’t get in developers’ way when they need to do fancier stuff.
@VamptVo How would they get in the way, though?
No website I know looks like bare HTML which means every default is overwritten anyway, no?
@malte Just that the more opinionated the defaults are, the more things devs have to override to get their preferred style. Also the defaults will always look bad to people BECAUSE they’re the defaults, so it’s a moving target.