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Speaking of my Palm Pilot – something I'm probably about to do a lot – the web browser on it, Blazer 5.0, had buttons in the UI to turn off JavaScript, images, and CSS. Individually. Not buried in the settings, which is in fact stupid, but right there, in easy reach for when you're browsing. Furthermore, it had failover default behaviors for rendering HTML that were actually graceful and worked correctly.

If you try to load HTML without CSS into any Android browser, you will get text so small that it is illegible. I have no idea why browsers these days are so incredibly stupid about this.

I want to be very clear what I am saying: Blazer 5.0 was actually a better browser than any modern browser. Now, these days it won't support modern websites, because modern websites have to be coded around the idiocy that is modern browsers, but you might be shocked how long I managed to continue to use it.

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