Posted June 11, 2018
Tried to view an article that looked interesting, but:
* In Chromium, there's a huge banner that takes up way too much vertical space. Combine this with modern tvs/monitors having so little vertical space, and it made the site unreadable.
* Tried to open the article in lynx (to avoid the banner), and I got a 403 error. Webmasters, *don't do this*!
Really, if you're building a website, make sure it doesn't use up precious vertical space, and make sure it works with web browsers like lynx. In particular, don't serve errors to less common user agents; it's very hostile design.
Related, but recently, while browsing with lynx, I followed a link to what looked like an interesting article, and got a message like "you need to enable JavaScript to run this app". There are a few issues here:
1. I do not want to run an app; I just want to read an article.
2. Enabling JavaScript is not an option (lynx doesn't have that feature).
3. Even if I could enable JavaScript, why should I? I consider JavaScript to be one of the biggest misfeatures of the modern web (the other main ones being autoplaying animations that can't be disabled and autoplaying audio), and it tends to be misused a lot. It also consumes a lot of CPU resources, and is why many web pages take so long to load.
* In Chromium, there's a huge banner that takes up way too much vertical space. Combine this with modern tvs/monitors having so little vertical space, and it made the site unreadable.
* Tried to open the article in lynx (to avoid the banner), and I got a 403 error. Webmasters, *don't do this*!
Really, if you're building a website, make sure it doesn't use up precious vertical space, and make sure it works with web browsers like lynx. In particular, don't serve errors to less common user agents; it's very hostile design.
Related, but recently, while browsing with lynx, I followed a link to what looked like an interesting article, and got a message like "you need to enable JavaScript to run this app". There are a few issues here:
1. I do not want to run an app; I just want to read an article.
2. Enabling JavaScript is not an option (lynx doesn't have that feature).
3. Even if I could enable JavaScript, why should I? I consider JavaScript to be one of the biggest misfeatures of the modern web (the other main ones being autoplaying animations that can't be disabled and autoplaying audio), and it tends to be misused a lot. It also consumes a lot of CPU resources, and is why many web pages take so long to load.