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There was recently a post about text-only CNN too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15210022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15210022 If there are mo

• akira2501 9y ago
  > If there are more text-only versions of sites I might have a reason to install lynx again.
  • ComputerGuru 9y ago
    Ugh. I literally just spent several hours adding a workaround to fish shell that addresses a bug in Lynx that’s been around forever that randomly makes html content unreadable [0]. And that was only possible after a lot of research and digging! How hard do you have to try to screw up the rendering of text only HTML? It turns out that lynx applies styles (foreground color + optional background color + optional underline) to rendered documents (so you can tell where a link is, mainly) by calculating the hash of the (HTML element name, class) tuple of each DOM member (probably supporting just one class per element). It turns out that the insanely popular `<div class="contents"></div>` element has a hash that collides with that of `em.a` (a link in emphasized text) which styles the link to become readable in the default styling applied to `em`... but due to that collision, `<div class="contents"></div>` elements, not having the default <em> styling applied to them, become entirely unreadably (black on dark blue). Lynx uses a very primitive hashing function (with a very small address space), and then (out of negligence or in the name of performance? Who knows!) doesn't check if the the (element, class) tuple (not its hash, but the actual tuple) matches that defined in the stylesheet... To make matters worse, doxygen (arguably the most popular open source documentation generation software) generates the HTML versions of its output with all the content in a div assigned a class called.... yup, you guessed it, `contents`. And that's where fish and my workaround came in :) [0]: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/4428 https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/4428
• Spivak 9y ago
  Yeah, if only there was really simple way to subscribe to many different feeds of syndicated text content.
  • agumonkey 9y ago
    still too soon
    • flukus 9y ago
      Google reader may be gone, but RSS still exists, which is what I think the parent is referring to. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of clients.
      • agumonkey 9y ago
        I was referring to the desaffection of the mainstream media toward RSS
        • Spivak 9y ago
          It's really rare to find a blog or news outlet that doesn't support RSS/Atom.
          • agumonkey 9y ago
            I thought browsers removed the builtin rss subscribe and update though ..
• aaronbrethorst 9y ago
  Text-only CNN was still loading a 200+KB analytics JS file. This NPR page is literally two orders of magnitude smaller.
• roywiggins 9y ago
  These remind me of playing with scraping sites into WAP format back when WAP seemed like a reasonable way to provide information on mobile.
• CephalopodMD 9y ago
  I learned about this site from the comments of that post
• projectant 9y ago
  There's this: https://github.com/textonly/news https://github.com/textonly/news ( and its own 'textonly' version https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textonly/news/master/README.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textonly/news/master/READM... )
  • sjmulder 9y ago
    I maintain a similar list at https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html Like the GitHub repo it's still very short but I'll add more sites as I find them.
    • projectant 9y ago
      Cool. Or you can contribute as well. Make a pull request!
  • no_news_is 9y ago
    I'm assuming this is yours? If so, typo in your url for the CNN link -- line instead of lite.
    • projectant 9y ago
      Thank you so much!