Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> I am against the layout being provided by the site.

  I apologize for my rude language, but the claim that text is better read
with no layout is just plain bullshit.

  There are lots of pages out there, where there are literally hundreds
of kilobytes of plain text in one enormous page. If I'm searching information
about something, those pages usually don't help too much. It simply takes
too much time and it's simply too tedious to try to find the information
I want among the thousands and thousands of lines of text.
  It has happened to me more than once that eg. searching something in
Google ends up in this kind of page. After I try to find something useful
for a couple of minutes I just give up and try the next Google hit; there
are usually a lot better layouted sites with the same information and it's
a lot easier to find there.

  A clear hierarchy, with sections, subsections etc. is the main way of
starting making a big page more clear. A large hierarchy needs a contents
or index page, or a site map in order to be easy to navigate. If there is
a lot of content, it should be divided into several logical pages. If a
page consists of several separated parts, eg. sections, there should be
a way to very easily see where does a new part start (a section name with
larger font is the main tool for this, but other additional features, such
as colors can make it even more clear).
  Hierarchy, sections, subsections, index, site map, visually marking
starting of different parts... All that is layout.

  You claim that the layout should be left to the browser, not the site.
However, the browser simply can't do most of those things because it has
no notion of the content. The site has to tell the browser information in
order to separate different items of the page.

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