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I hate to do it, but I have to call out responsive design. While I agree on the content of the entire article, the website itself is no easy read on a mobile d

by baxtr 8y ago

I hate to do it, but I have to call out responsive design. While I agree on the content of the entire article, the website itself is no easy read on a mobile device.

saagarjha 8y ago
Responsive design is great, but many people seem to forget that usually this just comes “for free”, as long as you don’t put very strong constraints on how your content should look.
- kristopolous 8y ago
  If you're willing to deal with HTML's native document flow, which is quite good for literature and scholarly material. I kinda wish there was a robust second non-commercial web with a number of technical restrictions designed to keep things from descending into crap. Not give people enough rope to hang themselves with. Tor's onion sites are the closest we've got, most have zero JavaScript, zero tracking and zero ads. It provides an amazing vision into the web we lost.
  - baxtr 8y ago
    Not exactly what your looking for, but whenever supported, I use Safari’s read mode. Cleans the page of crap and leaves only text and pictures. Works for me. Only downside though: you gotta load the whole crap first
  - jazzyjackson 8y ago
    Do you know about Gopher ? It is quite refreshing, if a little unintuitive. See here: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html
    - kristopolous 8y ago
      yeah sure of course ... has there been a renaissance of gopher? Last time I checked (about 8 years ago or so) things were effectively last updated in the late 90s. IIRC the final users were mostly professional librarians. I believe gopher support was removed from firefox about half a decade ago. so according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Server_census https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Server_censu... it looks like there's evidence of new servers and content ... albeit a small velocity.

by baxtr 8y ago

I hate to do it, but I have to call out responsive design. While I agree on the content of the entire article, the website itself is no easy read on a mobile device.

saagarjha 8y ago

Responsive design is great, but many people seem to forget that usually this just comes “for free”, as long as you don’t put very strong constraints on how your content should look.

kristopolous 8y ago
If you're willing to deal with HTML's native document flow, which is quite good for literature and scholarly material. I kinda wish there was a robust second non-commercial web with a number of technical restrictions designed to keep things from descending into crap. Not give people enough rope to hang themselves with. Tor's onion sites are the closest we've got, most have zero JavaScript, zero tracking and zero ads. It provides an amazing vision into the web we lost.
- baxtr 8y ago
  Not exactly what your looking for, but whenever supported, I use Safari’s read mode. Cleans the page of crap and leaves only text and pictures. Works for me. Only downside though: you gotta load the whole crap first
- jazzyjackson 8y ago
  Do you know about Gopher ? It is quite refreshing, if a little unintuitive. See here: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html
  - kristopolous 8y ago
    yeah sure of course ... has there been a renaissance of gopher? Last time I checked (about 8 years ago or so) things were effectively last updated in the late 90s. IIRC the final users were mostly professional librarians. I believe gopher support was removed from firefox about half a decade ago. so according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Server_census https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Server_censu... it looks like there's evidence of new servers and content ... albeit a small velocity.