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HTML/CSS are slow. The true way is ".txt" Edit: I mean this as a sort of lazy way of making a reductio. I don't think .txt is better than HTML/CSS for pages (a
by hyperpape 10y ago
HTML/CSS are slow. The true way is ".txt"
Edit: I mean this as a sort of lazy way of making a reductio. I don't think .txt is better than HTML/CSS for pages (and I hope that's obvious). I also don't think having no JS is a good idea.
I believe in progressive enhancement, and to a first approximation, I think that all websites have at least one feature that they could implement in JS that would be "a good thing".
- mxuribe 10y agoI agree 90% with this; .txt files get most of the job done! ;-) The other 10% where i don't fully agree comprises of hyperlinks; i need me some clickable hyperlinks. :-)
- walterbell 10y agoBrowser option to make hyperlinks clickable when rendering text files? Or client-side browser rendering of text-based markdown.
- happyslobro 10y agoHaving browsers intelligently render `text/markdown` sounds like a great idea. And while we're waiting on the browser implementation, maybe we can find some sort of temporary workaround to send a markdown parser to the client?
- pfooti 10y agoAs long as I can make text blink, I'm happy.
- Pete_D 10y agoMaybe we could just send the raw markdown anyway - it might not be pretty on all clients, but it should be _legible_ on all clients. Or maybe we could send markdown if the user agent included text/markdown in the request's Accept header, and pipe it through a markdown->HTML filter otherwise. I would love to see some kind of native markdown support on the web.
- walterbell 10y agoA web search turned up this Firefox plugin, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-viewer/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-view..., are there other good ones?
- krisdol 10y agoNo, hyperlinks failed us. It's all about single-page apps. Put all of your content and all of the content you would have linked to in your .txt. We need someone to build Reactxt.
- arkitaip 10y agoWhoa whoa whoa, what's some fat cat solution right there! Just use a http header for your content and you're set.
- imtringued 10y agoThe url should contain all the information so we don't have to make a HTTP request.
- Tiksi 10y agoI think most news sites implemented this years ago.