[vintagedave]

> next to no styling

MathPages (which I just looked up) has styling, but its styling is the _browser default_. And that default has mostly not changed for a quarter century. It is simple, and familiar, though I think a few tweaks like bigger margins against the window edges would make it more readable. One example: https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad...

May I spruik my own site? I have a very simple site, with no Javascript, that embodies what I believe are good typographical principles. It has a particular focus on typographical layout reproducing century-old-style (remembering a hundred years ago is still a modern, post-WW1 design era!) https://daveon.design/about-dave-on-design.html#typography-&...

[red_trumpet]

Going on a tangent here, but may I ask why you don't have hyphens enabled? Especially with justified text, one tends gets large spacing around words without hyphens, which seems to counteract the effect of larger spacing after ending a sentence.

[alecst]

What is an example of a page with no styling, then, if not one that uses the defaults? :)

[vintagedave]

I get your point: there are no CSS stylesheets or style elements on MathPages at all. Thus, no styles...

The thing is, there are no pages that use no styling! Defaults are styling: they are just choices the browser manufacturer made. Resetting those has its own cottage CSS industry: https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

I used to view default browser styles as not really styles. Then recently I started trying to use old HTML elements, like 'align', as a way to see if they behaved differently (solved problems with) CSS styling. It turned out that in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, the attributes behaved the same as setting CSS styles -- which makes sense from an underlying architecture point of view (why have two ways to set, say, left alignment?) but shows that the engines are CSS-based, that there is no such thing as not using styles, even using non-CSS, old-fashioned pre-CSS HTML.