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Thoughts on pure text for small or custom devices

For years, I've been planing on setting up a text-driven version of my websites. I never liked the fact that the design only came out correctly on full-blown laptops or desktops - i.e. something with the screen real-estate to handle a page that scales to a minimum of 800x600. Something occurred to me this morning, though: as long as I provide full rss feeds (where the feed includes the full content of the posts), does it even matter? If someone wants to avoid my design choices (e.g. they don't like my choices of layout and/or color), they can simply read the feeds from the sites and mangle/mash/change it any way they wish (trust me, I wouldn't be insulted). What about handling mobile or custom devices the same way? If I were providing content like a news source or selling items like e-commerce sites, then I guess it would matter whether or not my site was accessible across every imaginable platform. That is not the case, though, and I am doubting that the work would be worth going through (besides the academic exercise in learning how to do it). Anyone else with thoughts or comments?

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