On 2011-11-28 20:44, Martin Rex wrote:
... The real problem is buggy software for displaying on small displays. Reflowing ASCII is *no* problem whenever ASCII text is reflowable at all. It can be done in 1-2 KByte of code. Displaying HTML or XML
But our format currently is not reflowable. Can we make it? And if we do so, do we have clients to display it?
usally requires more than a megabyte of code. ...
So?
And btw. most of the Web pages that I try print out on paper have truncated borders, waste lots of paper because only a small portion of the surface is used for information and sometime only the first page gets printed (the rest only accessible inside the browser with a scroll bar).
Use a proper browser (-> Firefox), and make sure to do print preview.
How to print ASCII text is the type of problems for which easy solutions existed already 20 years ago. That some modern devices fail to display ascii text in a reasonable fashion is a demonstration that the software in these devices is defective, not that it is not possible to sensibly display ascii on such devices.
No, it just shows that our format has been optimized for a use case which almost nobody cares about anymore.
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