Hey #AskFedi,
I'm thinking of writing an article about browsing Web 1.0 in the modern world (i.e., no JS, sometimes no CSS, sometimes no graphics at all).
Do any of you guys use online services* that work well without JS?
Care to share for my post? :D
Y'all are amazing #FediFriends <3
#NoJS #htmLOLfia #TheOldWeb #Web1 #WebOnePointZero
* Things like navigations, movie listings, points of interest, reviews, but anything, really. :D
Yep, I use it every day. :D
I even have a script called "duck" which tries to pick the best text-based browser and converts your search to a DDG url. :)
That reminds me, I need to update my git repo with the latest changes to my little medley of scripts
w3m most of the time, sometimes xlinks when I want to see images.
w3m does support images, but it's pretty flaky and flickery. xlinks is x11, so it works much better.
w3m has much more flexible keybindings, though. That's what I love about it.
search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
Actually, lots of search engines work fine without JS, including DDG, mojeek, and even G**Gle! :o
Aaaaah! That I'll have to play with!
@RL_Dane depends on well.
I’m okay with manually editing fanfiction URLs to go to the next chapter, but fucking Cloudflare with doublefucking hCaptcha fucked it up so I use FicHub for these. AO3 took back the captchas, so it works again, well the basic functionality at least.
I used to be at Postbank whose online banking worked with lynx, but it got enshittified, and I’m no longer with them as a result. The current bank’s also needs JS but at least no äpp… yet.
I think the attempts to force people into “the digital” and äpps are the worse problem, compared to websites.
I've been toying around with the idea of starting a wee t-shirt company. I'd sell t-shirts like "I don't want your dumb app" and provide explainers for each t-shirt for Ordinary Mortals.
Whoah, that's wonderful!!! Thanks, that's absolutely going on the honor roll!
Oh, that's neat!!
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