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by arnejenssen 480 days ago
Off topic: I'm wondering why OpenBSD pages (and many "*ux") just uses basic HTML with no styling or CSS?

Typography matters for readability. For the minimum get a decent line height and limit the line length to 60-ish characters.

Are OpenBSD not taking (potential) users seriously? User experience matters, and the readability of the docs is part of the UX.

(sorry for the rant)

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That page uses CSS though. Maybe we're looking at different view-sources.

And for readability I already have my browser set up with my favorite fonts and font sizes and background/foreground colors. How can I expect every website to guess my preferences perfectly, as opposed to all the other people with different preferences. So I just set it up one time in the browser UI and it just works everywhere.

If a user is not able to navigate a font/color selection UI but wants to give technical advice to the OpenBSD team, I think it's that user not taking OpenBSD developers seriously.