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I agree completely. I'm not visually impaired outside of garden-variety nearsightedness, but I sort of have a strong appreciation for "boring" websites that ha

I agree completely. I'm not visually impaired outside of garden-variety nearsightedness, but I sort of have a strong appreciation for "boring" websites that have very utilitarian "Header, subheader, body of text, etc...". They work well with text-only browsers, but also are trivial to make work with various text-to-speech things which I find occasionally useful; sometimes it's just easier for me to understand something if it's being read along to me while reading it, particularly if the font is small.

72deluxe 5y ago
They also typically load faster because they don't need megabytes of javascript to "display" the content or offer pointless fading in/out of text and lazy/load of images. All of which means less CPU, fewer network requests and less power used which means a longer-lasting planet.
- tombert 5y ago
  At some level I understand that it's kind of a form of artistic expression, and I understand and appreciate that. If people like making pretty and super-interactive websites because it's a way to make themselves happy, by all means they should do it. It's not radically different that someone getting into painting or sculpting in my mind. I think I mostly get annoyed with stuff like news websites of personal blogs having all this extra crap added to it. At the end of the day, I view these things as somewhat utilitarian; I don't go onto a blog to be wowed by a million JavaScript effects, I go there to read text, and maybe some pictures to help elaborate on stuff.
visarga 5y ago
> sometimes it's just easier for me to understand something if it's being read along to me while reading it Doing exactly this right now. I use a bookmarklet to make anything I click start speaking, on any website. It even shows the progress by fading away read words. I've been doing this for at least 7 years, always using Alex from MacOS, at 1.3x. I used to have it work on PDF's as well, but that went away when Chrome's PDF viewer was changed from PDF.js
- quenix 5y ago
  How can I get this bookmarklet?
  - visarga 5y ago
    Unfortunately no because it logs my readings for later. It's not built to be used by more than one.

72deluxe 5y ago

They also typically load faster because they don't need megabytes of javascript to "display" the content or offer pointless fading in/out of text and lazy/load of images. All of which means less CPU, fewer network requests and less power used which means a longer-lasting planet.

tombert 5y ago
At some level I understand that it's kind of a form of artistic expression, and I understand and appreciate that. If people like making pretty and super-interactive websites because it's a way to make themselves happy, by all means they should do it. It's not radically different that someone getting into painting or sculpting in my mind. I think I mostly get annoyed with stuff like news websites of personal blogs having all this extra crap added to it. At the end of the day, I view these things as somewhat utilitarian; I don't go onto a blog to be wowed by a million JavaScript effects, I go there to read text, and maybe some pictures to help elaborate on stuff.

visarga 5y ago

> sometimes it's just easier for me to understand something if it's being read along to me while reading it Doing exactly this right now. I use a bookmarklet to make anything I click start speaking, on any website. It even shows the progress by fading away read words. I've been doing this for at least 7 years, always using Alex from MacOS, at 1.3x. I used to have it work on PDF's as well, but that went away when Chrome's PDF viewer was changed from PDF.js

quenix 5y ago
How can I get this bookmarklet?
- visarga 5y ago
  Unfortunately no because it logs my readings for later. It's not built to be used by more than one.