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That's because the designers of most web pages want the features they provide. When you say "optional" you don't actually mean optional, you mean removed. Such
by Touche 11y ago
That's because the designers of most web pages want the features they provide. When you say "optional" you don't actually mean optional, you mean removed. Such a thing already exists, it's called Gopher[1].
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
- ForHackernews 11y agoMost websites today don't even gracefully degrade. One of the trendy blog/article sites that gets posted here regularly (it might be Medium) is just a column of text with lots of whitespace, but the text is loaded via AJAX, so without JS, you can't even read it.
- Touche 11y agoSure, I know that, what's your solution though?
- walterbell 11y agoAn opt-in labelling and discovery/search mechanism for ClassicWeb™ sites?
- weland 11y agoHA! That would actually be lovely. Something easily-discovered, like a "isactualhypertextnotaturingtarpit" attribute for the <meta> tag (OK, maybe something less verbose) would probably solve half the problem.