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Who needs CSS for justified text when you can just do it 1980-style monospaced justification? This makes me happy, and I have no idea why.
by pianosaurus 2y ago
Who needs CSS for justified text when you can just do it 1980-style monospaced justification? This makes me happy, and I have no idea why.
- evnix 2y agoRead it from a tiny screen, you will realise why it is a bad idea.
- 082349872349872 2y agoReading from a tiny screen being the root bad idea.
- nine_k 2y agoI remember using physical screens that only had 64 or even 40 columns. (A printout was more practical for reading anyway. Just tolerate a few minutes of dot-matrix noise.)
- kps 2y agoIt wasn't meant to be read from a screen. (A browser doesn't show the Form Feed character at each page number.)
- hoseja 2y agoI hate it so much, full of wrong linebreaks. I don't need typewriter or dot matrix compatibility.
- fuglede_ 2y agoThis tom7 video might also make you happy then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc
- petee 2y agoProbably because it just works, simply. Whereas with the complexity we have today we can barely align things consistently; it's almost comedy Tip for those with mobile issues: rotate to landscape and the words get bigger ;)
- silvestrov 2y agoI think that more than the font being monospace it is that the font is a good font with high contrast rather than whatever thin and light gray font that many sites use to look fancy. For +90% of web sites I read I only need a "fix font" for the body text and not a full "reader" version of the page.