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I think I know why your page didn't look right on Android. I think you omitted the following:

This meta tag is irrelevant on desktops and laptops, but it does all kinds of dark magic on smartphones and tablets.

Also you don't need <head> or <body> in HTML5; that stuff's required for older versions of HTML (as well as XHTML, but nobody ever cared about that).

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Holy macaroni!

I appreciate your input, but what you said only amplifies my disgust with html. I'd have not figured out such by searching/browsing online in a proverbial million years, especially as the value/accuracy of content seemingly diminishes faster than a html tag goes obsolete.... ;-)

I'm more convinced than ever that I'm going to put my time/effort into writing, and presenting it in a way that others can parse and render as they like. As for everyone else, as with "natural selection", you don't do the work, you don't reap the benefit(s).

That "million years" comment reminds me that I wasted far too much time trying to figure out what layer is causing strings that look like URL's in my terminal become mouse-click-ably opened by my browser. Is it the xterm variant on my system? Is it tmux? Is it bash within a tmux pane? I spent hours, and came to no useful conclusion. I figured out how to display some terminfo escape sequences that I think are related, but I couldn't find any information on the terminfo entries I was seeing (Ms, Cs, Cr, and Ss).

I got the vague feeling it was an xterm matter, except that the relevant terminfo string crapola was revealed by "tmux show-options -s", so.... <shrugs while wincing and wondering where the wife hid the bottle of Jameson>