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Cake day: February 22nd, 2025

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  • Yes. I think we’re missing each other pinpointing details while meaning the same. Every browser has it’s defaut or “standard” style, nowadays even adapting to the system theme and trying to guess if to use day or night settings etc. Nevertheless it won’t break lines in a reasonable way, won’t deal with footnotes in an acceptable way and either break the layout of pure text pages or the layout of illustrated pages. HTML5 makes these specific things somewhat better as it allows realtively advanced document structure but nevertheless, a few lines of CSS to reflect at least the prinipial character of the document are unlikely to hurt anyone in a worse way than a one-style-fits-all layout for everything will hurt tha vast majority.






  • Oh, come on. You really want some at least readable output. Things like image borders, consistently positioned images/diagrams, line breaks and page borders. Some whitespace and indentations, too. You just can’t read a couple of pages full of unformatted raw text without massive eye fatigue. I’m all for dumping JS and excessive frameworks, I’d prefer well-formed XHTML over any of that clients-side scripted crap, but totally rejecting CSS is pointless zealotry.




  • Yes. Exactly that. Had the Nano sitting around for years together with a couple of bare AVR MCs and an SPI programmer but didn’t do much with them because I just had no practical need. I was thinking of making a stand-alone USB host controller to turn some of my USB-MIDI controllers into standalone controllers with DIN connectors, but a Raspi and Yamaha UX-16 1x1 MIDI interface I had in the drawer and a ROLAND A15 that I hadn’t noticed would run as a full controller via DIN-5 when powered up without USB host did the job out-of-the-box. :-)