I question the focus of this article. It would be excellent advice for print that cannot be changed after it has been printed, but since every web user can (in theory) control the way things look on their device it would be better to focus on making that easier for people to do.
As an artist, I absolutely agree with all the design arguments about readability etc. But that stuff doesn't need to be on the server side. I really resent being forced to download tons of design data whenever I visit a web page instead of being able to set preferences and have the computer present text in the way I actually want to see it. Many websites are horribly crufty and ugly, and make my reading experience worse.
You know what else I hate? Web pages that are so in love with their print ancestors that the text is squeezed into a narrow column and almost 2/3 of my screen is white space. So I have to keep scrolling endlessly because you can't figure out how to flow text into two columns.
As an artist, I absolutely agree with all the design arguments about readability etc. But that stuff doesn't need to be on the server side. I really resent being forced to download tons of design data whenever I visit a web page instead of being able to set preferences and have the computer present text in the way I actually want to see it. Many websites are horribly crufty and ugly, and make my reading experience worse.
You know what else I hate? Web pages that are so in love with their print ancestors that the text is squeezed into a narrow column and almost 2/3 of my screen is white space. So I have to keep scrolling endlessly because you can't figure out how to flow text into two columns.