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Why not just use a command line browser? links https://news.ycombinator.com

• _-david-_ 5y ago
  I haven't used links, but does it get the comment indentation properly?
  • mindcrime 5y ago
    I tried just now and it seems the answer is "no" on comment indentation. I don't see any indentation at all, everything is a flat list, left justified. Edit: tried with elinks as well, same (more or less) thing. :-(
    • divbzero 5y ago
      Same with lynx which is a bummer. I was half expecting HN’s <table> layout to work everywhere.
      • divbzero 5y ago
        Looks like HN actually uses JavaScript to indent, based on a <td indent="n"> attribute where n is the level of indentation. So it’s more a progressive enhancement than something built into the underlying HTML. (Edit: I think my initial take above was wrong. Please see below.)
        • dragonwriter 5y ago
          > Looks like HN actually uses JavaScript to indent I’m not an anti-JS person, but why? CSS seems so much more sensible for that.
          • divbzero 5y ago
            I want to correct my initial take above. The JavaScript code I was looking at actually appears to show/hide children in threads. The indentation appears to be handled separately by invisible GIFs: <td class="ind" indent="0"> <img src="s.gif" height="1" width="0"> </td> <td class="ind" indent="1"> <img src="s.gif" height="1" width="40"> </td> <td class="ind" indent="2"> <img src="s.gif" height="1" width="80"> </td>
• Fnoord 5y ago
  Or with browsh. (Btw, kind of scary the Links website is still served over http:// http://)