My general preference is the format that Readability will render.
Just the damned copy.
If you've got navigation elements, don't cram them into sidebars. Put them at the top of the page (but not fixed), or bottom (dittos).
For a huge number of sites, I disable presentation of headers, footers, and sidebars entirely. I'm not on the sites frequently enough to care to use them.
Some mobile sites do pretty well by removing extraneous elements, others cram in more fixed elements (top, bottom, or side), all of which send me running. There's simply not sufficient real estate to deal with that crap.
Increasingly, Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem.
I've suggested gently to the author of this site that he'd do better with balanced left/right margins, a 45em or so content width, semantic markup, and white backgrounds, but he's apparently not interested:
Seriously, when the easiest way to read content is to grab plain text via lynx or w3m, add Markdown, and re-export the page as HTML or PDF, you're doing it wrong.
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My general preference is the format that Readability will render.
Just the damned copy.
If you've got navigation elements, don't cram them into sidebars. Put them at the top of the page (but not fixed), or bottom (dittos).
For a huge number of sites, I disable presentation of headers, footers, and sidebars entirely. I'm not on the sites frequently enough to care to use them.
Some mobile sites do pretty well by removing extraneous elements, others cram in more fixed elements (top, bottom, or side), all of which send me running. There's simply not sufficient real estate to deal with that crap.
Increasingly, Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem.
I've suggested gently to the author of this site that he'd do better with balanced left/right margins, a 45em or so content width, semantic markup, and white backgrounds, but he's apparently not interested:
http://www.billdietrich.me/Reason/ReasonConsumption.html
Seriously, when the easiest way to read content is to grab plain text via lynx or w3m, add Markdown, and re-export the page as HTML or PDF, you're doing it wrong.
http://redd.it/256lxu