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A small collection of text-only websites (shkspr.mobi)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/webdev@programming.dev
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It seems plaintext blogs are a weird child of smallweb design.

I think it would be best to have some kind of markup to identify links, and provide other things like italics, bold, subscript, superscript. For example, as in gemini protocol.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You'd think somebody would already have invented some sort of HyperText Markup Language. Oh well.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I guess the point of using only text is to test how far you can go with performance. Using plaintext, or a simple markup language, also forces you to not do the things you can do with HTML.

    Image a news website where the focus is the actual news, instead of the weirdly sized max-contrast cookie banner, or the weird space left for ads that do not load because of uBO.

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