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Comment by gtk40

10 years ago

It's interesting to see HTML from that time period too. Did HTML tags in <title> used to be rendered in browsers?

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iamtew  10 years ago

In some, if not all, browsers it did. I remember <marquee> and <blink> used to be pretty popular :-)

endgame  10 years ago

It's beautiful, is what it is. It loads instantly, doesn't download megabytes of crap and is very information-dense.

  • Sharlin  10 years ago

    Though I think I really have to write some user CSS or a bookmarklet or something for pages like this, namely:

        body {
        width: 50em;
        margin: auto;
        line-height: 1.6;
    }

    The Firefox Reader View is supposed to do that but it's way too narrow (30em I think) and way too often messes up some formatting essential to understanding the content.

    • _phaq  10 years ago

      Reader View being too narrow should get a fix in either the next release or the one after that, i.e. the fix is in Developer Edition, maybe already in Beta (I didn't check there), and a small change like that usually goes through Developer Edition and Beta in one release cycle each.

      Basically, they now have a setting for that in the toolbox to the left, so you can decide yourself how narrow or wide you want it. They also added a setting for the line height, so even though you didn't complain about that with Reader View, you can now change that, too, if you should ever need it.

aembleton  10 years ago

<title> tags were rendered in Internet Explorer as a tooltip. Other browsers would only render the alt tag as a tooltip, but there was pressure on them to also render the <title> because IE was the dominant browser at the time.

  • gtk40  10 years ago

    Where would a <title> display as a tooltip? And how would that render the <sup> tags like in the <title> on this page?