An experiment with presenting text online.
Every webpage shouldn't be like the last line of a Snellen chart
— me, a couple years ago.
I'm generally frustrated with reading things on the internet. I appreciate physical books because there is no mystery in the container. The moment I hold a book and glance at a page, I have a sense of its concrete density. But while books have that affordance, they lack flexibility. With webpages you can change so many things: the font size, letter spacing, background and foreground colors, typeface, etc. Yet I find myself always tweaking the way the text is presented to me. I'm either adding a stylesheet, or using the inspector to modify the page. And even with the modifications, I still find that I want a better experience. I never know how long anything is and I find that annoying. The scrollbar isn't very helpful, and often there are other noisy elements on a page. The text on most pages seems rather small to me, even when I change browser settings.
So yeah. This is just me experementing with things. And it definitely has errors but I just wanted to try things out.
Text The Internet Classics Archive | Apology by Plato. http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html.
Image of Socrates Mendez, Norto. Portrait of the philosopher Socrates. 3 Apr. 2014. Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_the_philosopher_Socrates..jpg.
