Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: What's Wrong With Newlines? Date: 30 Mar 2019 11:23:29 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <87ef6pfaah.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net fy9rvWkUMFJ4LGBoxA0PBQvaJ5LqpzZE2WsQRcZ6TSK3ZLf0oh Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ifUJbzyQY6+DeL04tXhIcR0WII= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:17703 On 2019-03-30, Mike Spencer wrote: > > not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes: > >> Personally I'd rather they left such decisions up to the user's web >> browser, which could be configured to the user's preference. > > The horror! The horror! This is not 1993! Web pages are supposed to > look and behave the way the marketing droids say they should; in the > absence of a marketing department, the way PFY "web designers" and > 30-something "UX engineers" say they should. *applause* -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 16th day of Discord in the YOLD 3185 1. What power do you have? 2. Where did you get it? 3. In whose interests do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. How can we get rid of you?