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Re: What Urbit is

#4

Post by bshimmin »

This page was so clearly written, and its content so compelling, I was actually left wondering whether it was the same bafflingly pretentious Urbit that I'd stared at in mesmerised bewilderment in years past.

This makes sense, looks great, and I might well give it a try!

Re: What Urbit is

#5

Post by Mithaldu »

rgbrgb wrote: post #2

They just released a really clean new homepage too. Big stuff! https://www.urbit.org/

If by "clean" you mean its fallback behavior without JS is to show a white page with nothing, then it is squeaky clean. :D

Re: What Urbit is

#6

Post by state »

Mithaldu wrote: post #5
rgbrgb wrote: post #2

They just released a really clean new homepage too. Big stuff! https://www.urbit.org/

If by "clean" you mean its fallback behavior without JS is to show a white page with nothing, then it is squeaky clean. :D

Sorry about that. Since this page is built with urbit it's easy to just request the raw Markdown.

Here's plain text for anyone interested: http://urbit.org/posts/overview.md

Edit: it should be easy for us to stick that link inside a noscript tag be default. Issue here: https://github.com/urbit/arvo/issues/149

Re: What Urbit is

#7

Post by Mithaldu »

state wrote: post #6
Mithaldu wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If by "clean" you mean its fallback behavior without JS is to show a white page with nothing, then it is squeaky clean. :D

Sorry about that. Since this page is built with urbit it's easy to just request the raw Markdown. Here's plain text for anyone interested: http://urbit.org/posts/overview.md Edit: it should be easy for us to stick that link inside a noscript tag be default. Issue here: https://github.com/urbit/arvo/issues/149

Maybe the noscript tags for those pages could just show a link to the underlying .md? Then you don't need to worry about including it in the page, and it's still available. :)

Re: What Urbit is

#8

Post by state »

Mithaldu wrote: post #7
state wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry about that. Since this page is built with urbit it's easy to just request the raw Markdown. Here's plain text for anyone interested: http://urbit.org/posts/overview.md Edit: it should be easy for us to stick that link inside a noscript tag be default. Issue here: https://github.com/urbit/arvo/issues/149

Maybe the noscript tags for those pages could just show a link to the underlying .md? Then you don't need to worry about including it in the page, and it's still available. :)

Agreed. Thanks for saying something!

Re: What Urbit is

#9

Post by Touche »

Mithaldu wrote: post #5
rgbrgb wrote: post #2

They just released a really clean new homepage too. Big stuff! https://www.urbit.org/

If by "clean" you mean its fallback behavior without JS is to show a white page with nothing, then it is squeaky clean. :D

It also doesn't work on Windows 95 :(

Re: What Urbit is

#10

Post by zekevermillion »

bshimmin wrote: post #4

This page was so clearly written, and its content so compelling, I was actually left wondering whether it was the same bafflingly pretentious Urbit that I'd stared at in mesmerised bewilderment in years past. This makes sense, looks great, and I might well give it a try!

I for one enjoyed reading about the bafflingly pretentious Urbit even though I wasn't sure what to make of it.
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