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I miss websites that look like lynx's: https://lynx.browser.org/ https://lynx.browser.org/

by febeling 2y ago

eviks 2y ago
You mean unreadable on mobile due to tiny text?
- galago 2y ago
  Should we blame an old timey basic webpage for its lack of complexity or should we blame a modern browser for not accommodating the web in its most simple form?
  - eviks 2y ago
    We can walk and chew gum? Also, how much complexity do you think is needed to fix this by the webpage?
    - tempodox 2y ago
      It would be up to the browser to render HTML sensibly. Use a browser that can.
      - SkiFire13 2y ago
        There is a specification that says how it should be rendered. I definitely don't want every browser to decide how to render my webpage, that would just make development so much harder and complex.
- im3w1l 2y ago
  Looked fine for me on mobile.
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y ago
  I’m sorry to hear that lunch to zoom is hard on your fingers
- bdw5204 2y ago
  It's perfectly readable on Brave for Android. The text even wraps to the screen size so you don't have to scroll. Which phone browser renders it in an unreadable manner?
  - eviks 2y ago
    Any phone browser that rendered the page before they added a simple fix
piker 2y ago
Unreadable on a phone without zooming and panning. A little CSS wouldn’t be a bad thing here.
- brainwad 2y ago
  Perfectly readable in Firefox Mobile. Chrome too. What mobile browser are you using?
  - metalman 2y ago
    also works with android "Stoutner privacy browser" with java scripts, cookies, DOM, turned OFF went strait to the resources page, where there are versions for a lot of different OS's nothing for android, but not realy expecting to find that, anyway.
nabla9 2y ago
Missing one line to look good in mobile. <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
- tsukikage 2y ago
  What does that do, and why is it not the default?
  - nabla9 2y ago
    Many mobile devices render pages in a virtual window aka viewport, which is wider than the screen, and then shrink the rendered result down so it can all be seen at once. Mobile browsers can stop doing that any time they want. They do it because pages not optimized for mobile and break often in mobile. This 'shit-sifting' phenomenon in common in open protocols with lots of software and inertia. 1. Bad shit in the other end breaks this end. 2. Fix it with hack in this end. 3. Good shit in the other end is now bad shit with the fix. 4. Add workaround to make good shit good again. (Microsoft Internet Explorer was born after Bill Gates did seance and Satan taught him to use this phenomenon to corrupt the internet.)
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  Added. Makes the text better but now the screenshot is too large. Bloody HTML.
  - nabla9 2y ago
    I prefer to add <style> img, video { max-width:100%;} </style>
Paianni 2y ago
That landing page seems unmaintained, I think this is the main home page: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  > That landing page seems unmaintained. I maintained it for a while, then delegated the DNS to someone else, but they didn't maintain it either, swapped it back. ~I'll update it when I get a chance.~ edit: Updated with the correct version and some small HTML tweaks
- kragen 2y ago
  This says: > Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall ... > Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator. For that reason I don't think it's a good page to recommend.
andai 2y ago
The font in the screenshot is Cosmic Sans [sic], https://github.com/gregkh/cosmic-sans-neue https://github.com/gregkh/cosmic-sans-neue which was later renamed Fantasque due to hate mail.
- greggsy 2y ago
  Do you mean the naming similarity to Comic Sans?
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  > The font in the screenshot is Cosmic Sans Probably Fantasque because I've (to the best of my memory) never installed Cosmic Sans (and I made the screenshot, obvs.) but I do occasionally use Fantasque for terminals. But since the screenshot needs updating, I'm open to suggestions for what font to use this time.
  - zimpenfish 2y ago
    Opted for Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono, Bold, at 20pt.

I miss websites that look like lynx's: https://lynx.browser.org/ https://lynx.browser.org/

eviks 2y ago

You mean unreadable on mobile due to tiny text?

galago 2y ago
Should we blame an old timey basic webpage for its lack of complexity or should we blame a modern browser for not accommodating the web in its most simple form?
- eviks 2y ago
  We can walk and chew gum? Also, how much complexity do you think is needed to fix this by the webpage?
  - tempodox 2y ago
    It would be up to the browser to render HTML sensibly. Use a browser that can.
    - SkiFire13 2y ago
      There is a specification that says how it should be rendered. I definitely don't want every browser to decide how to render my webpage, that would just make development so much harder and complex.
im3w1l 2y ago
Looked fine for me on mobile.
hsbauauvhabzb 2y ago
I’m sorry to hear that lunch to zoom is hard on your fingers
bdw5204 2y ago
It's perfectly readable on Brave for Android. The text even wraps to the screen size so you don't have to scroll. Which phone browser renders it in an unreadable manner?
- eviks 2y ago
  Any phone browser that rendered the page before they added a simple fix

piker 2y ago

Unreadable on a phone without zooming and panning. A little CSS wouldn’t be a bad thing here.

brainwad 2y ago
Perfectly readable in Firefox Mobile. Chrome too. What mobile browser are you using?
- metalman 2y ago
  also works with android "Stoutner privacy browser" with java scripts, cookies, DOM, turned OFF went strait to the resources page, where there are versions for a lot of different OS's nothing for android, but not realy expecting to find that, anyway.

nabla9 2y ago

Missing one line to look good in mobile. <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

tsukikage 2y ago
What does that do, and why is it not the default?
- nabla9 2y ago
  Many mobile devices render pages in a virtual window aka viewport, which is wider than the screen, and then shrink the rendered result down so it can all be seen at once. Mobile browsers can stop doing that any time they want. They do it because pages not optimized for mobile and break often in mobile. This 'shit-sifting' phenomenon in common in open protocols with lots of software and inertia. 1. Bad shit in the other end breaks this end. 2. Fix it with hack in this end. 3. Good shit in the other end is now bad shit with the fix. 4. Add workaround to make good shit good again. (Microsoft Internet Explorer was born after Bill Gates did seance and Satan taught him to use this phenomenon to corrupt the internet.)
zimpenfish 2y ago
Added. Makes the text better but now the screenshot is too large. Bloody HTML.
- nabla9 2y ago
  I prefer to add <style> img, video { max-width:100%;} </style>

Paianni 2y ago

That landing page seems unmaintained, I think this is the main home page: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

zimpenfish 2y ago
> That landing page seems unmaintained. I maintained it for a while, then delegated the DNS to someone else, but they didn't maintain it either, swapped it back. ~I'll update it when I get a chance.~ edit: Updated with the correct version and some small HTML tweaks
kragen 2y ago
This says: > Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall ... > Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator. For that reason I don't think it's a good page to recommend.

andai 2y ago

The font in the screenshot is Cosmic Sans [sic], https://github.com/gregkh/cosmic-sans-neue https://github.com/gregkh/cosmic-sans-neue which was later renamed Fantasque due to hate mail.

greggsy 2y ago
Do you mean the naming similarity to Comic Sans?
zimpenfish 2y ago
> The font in the screenshot is Cosmic Sans Probably Fantasque because I've (to the best of my memory) never installed Cosmic Sans (and I made the screenshot, obvs.) but I do occasionally use Fantasque for terminals. But since the screenshot needs updating, I'm open to suggestions for what font to use this time.
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  Opted for Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono, Bold, at 20pt.