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I think there is a rather big divide between people like me who thinks the web should be "content-only" and people who see it as an application platform. Most
by bjoli 6y ago
I think there is a rather big divide between people like me who thinks the web should be "content-only" and people who see it as an application platform.
Most of what I do on the web resolves around reading things, not interacting in any meaningful way. Most of the web tries it's best to ruin that experience. Most of what I do online would be better served by gopher. I understand I am a part of a minuscule minority, but that doesn't stop me from whining.
- sergeykish 6y agoBut what is the difference once you disable JS and CSS? And reader mode? I find it great that I can progressively enable features.
- bjoli 6y agoI can't browser it in emacs, the world's best tool for navigating and working with text :) I have thought about what I want since writing. I want a format where the receiving end decides how to display it. Tabular data? Give me a default sort and leave the rest to me. Images? Should they break text or be showed as a thumbnail with textflowibg around it? I haven't thought a lot about it, but I want content with metadata attached.
- sergeykish 6y agoSure, and browser is a javascript virtual machine to execute HTML/CSS/JS serialized images fetched from network. It just happens that some images can be converted to readable text. I still don't get it, most of the web perfectly works without JS, so what is the problem? Most of the authors equally don't care about your and my case. Maybe text around article? It is easier with CSS support, thought it should be possible to replicate reader mode heuristics if it was not done already, fetch what to hide from UserScripts or create alternative. Images may come in different resolutions (up to 8K).