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.
Best regards, Julian
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