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The above may help, it's not realistic for the vast majority to publishers to follow the above. What do you think of using virtual machines in some capacity?
by spicybright 5y ago
The above may help, it's not realistic for the vast majority to publishers to follow the above.
What do you think of using virtual machines in some capacity?
- jraph 5y agoVMs suppose you still have the OS images and applications at hand, and make it more difficult to mass-handle all this information in a convenient / workable way. They require powerful machines, and, indeed, advanced emulators. But I'd argue that this is realistic for most publisher. See for example bbc.co.uk or theguardian.com. Their articles render well even in a terminal-based browser without CSS like w3m. For me this shows that this is realistic. What special need would require a publisher to break this? You may still use complex CSS/HTML/JavaScript, only the page should render well without the complexity. Graceful degradation / progressive enhancement are okay. I actually browse the Web with JS disabled by default and many things work actually well. Problematic pages are documents that are written like applications with a frontend framework, leading to blank pages. Or pages that have a strange behavior like an endless redirection/refresh when Javascript is disabled. Yes, I've seen that. Those pages are probably difficult to archive and will probably be harder to handle in the future.