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Ok, I get it you're a prolific hacker and well respected... But why does your website have to look like it's from 1994?

Maybe because 1994 had something right-- his pages load VERY quickly, are dense with interesting information, and display sensible in all browsers; you can't say that about the vast majority of the modern web.

> vast majority of the modern web

Must've hit a sore spot or something...

Even without a degree in design one can see that this page is nearly unreadable. The easiest (but not the only) thing to fix is to limit the width of the column of text.

Unreadable? Hardly. It's text on a page. It's astonishingly readable.

Why limit the width of the text? If I want it wider, I'll make it wider; if I want it narrower, I'll make it narrower. This is something I can do with a relatively plain text webpage.

Edit: Although I see sdiq below had a browser that apparently couldn't handle plain HTML without help from him. Perhaps something in your browser is making it unreadable.

A basic width limit really is a good idea, but something simple like max-width:50em;margin:auto; (so that the text column gets appropriately larger/smaller with page zoom) is plenty for that.

oh god no, please, if you want another width resize your window.

> The easiest (but not the only) thing to fix is to limit the width of the column of text.

You can resize your window to whatever size you want.

I added a padding on the div element because the text stretches too wide on my display. Other than that, it's fast and readable. the only improvement i can think of is max-width:80vw or something like that.

Unreadable? I read this and the mongrel one and had no problems, sure I had to zoom in to view it just right, but any lack of style points are made up with the excellent content.

I had to tinker with the CSS on Chrome developer tools just so as to read the story. Regardless, a very interesting story with one of the most important part of his life story buried down there somewhere - his success in advocating for strong bike helmets.

Preferences aside, that says more about Chrome honestly.

Better at running Javascript "Apps" than rendering HTML.

Not a chrome user, but doesn't chrome have a "reader view" like firefox or safari?

What did you change about the CSS? Width?

it's absolutely delicious that a person of your username made such a comment

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