DNS over HTTPS in Firefox

Posted Jun 4, 2018 15:47 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: DNS over HTTPS in Firefox by oldtomas
Parent article: DNS over HTTPS in Firefox

> > There never was any "contract" that a Web page is a static "document", and if there had been, it was lost when JS was enabled by default in Netscape 2 in 1995.

> You *know* that this is a very lopsided view of things. The Web is still degrading now, and the most important part of the slope started about five to seven years ago. Before, there always was a talk of "graceful degradation", but taking away the controls from users is just doing the rest. So yes, there were remnants of that contract there.

The broken contract I really miss is that it is down to the *receiver* *device* to control the formatting, such that what appears on the screen and what appears on the printer and what appears on whatever other device the user may have ... I'm just totally fed up with a "simple" web page in the browser turning into 30 or 40 pages on the printer, many with just one giant letter on them, and the information that I really wanted that was clearly visible on screen doesn't even print!!!

Cheers,
Wol