Hot take: The OS should provide declarative GUI APIs for the type of data an application wants to render instead of giving it graphics access and relying on a billion GUI toolkits with incompatible styles. Way easier for sandboxing too.
@mauve And we would call that a web browser :)
@fabrice I would love it if web browsers focused on function instead of infinite customization. It frustrates me that each site has their own beautiful design that takes over how scrolling works and what font / size I should see with a billion differences in where content is and whether it'll render at my preferred width.
I get art focused pages and personal showcasing, but especially corporate sites have no business making me slog through their shit just to use their product or read a page
@fabrice Browsers empower web designers instead of web users is the thing that irks me about them. The web isn't ours, it belongs to whoever writes the CSS.
@mauve Right, it's a hard balance to find. I use reader mode a lot with news sites for that reason - getting consistent look and feel, but that doesn't work with everything.
