I like this more than you’d think; my whole website is an extended exercise of Doing Cool Stuff with CSS and HTML generated from Markdown, but I always feel a little uncomfortable doing anything too fun when userstyles are not common practice. I could totally create a style switcher with Javascript, but… wouldn’t it be better if that were built into the client?
Reader mode in Firefox is what I’d like to fall back to, but it doesn’t handle my footnotes right now. :(
yeah, I think the interest of the piece primarily lies in its insistence of a strict dichotomy between document and application usecases. I’m sure we can all think of examples that lie somewhere in the middle; the ordinary view is that websites exhibit a smooth continuum of interactivity necessitating a more and more app-like approach. Being forced to consider each use as strictly one or the other sparks some interesting ideas.