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Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by hollander »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #41

When Google first came out and we tried it there were two things we liked about it. The first: Good search results. Yeah everyone knows that right. But young people today might have forgotten the second reason we liked Google search back then: The Second: A clean page with a single logo and search field. It loaded quick. There were no banners everywhere, no bs. HackerNews has that feel. It is clean, information dense…

I don't know why, but many times Google just doesn't load here. I always open a private tab in Firefox to get rid of cookies easily, then load Google, and I don't know if this is the reason but after a while it just stops.

Duckduckgo is (for me) the new google in terms of speed, but the search results are not the same quality.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by otalp »

hollander wrote: post #111
SubiculumCode wrote: post #41

When Google first came out and we tried it there were two things we liked about it. The first: Good search results. Yeah everyone knows that right. But young people today might have forgotten the second reason we liked Google search back then: The Second: A clean page with a single logo and search field. It loaded quick. There were no banners everywhere, no bs. HackerNews has that feel. It is clean, information dense…

I don't know why, but many times Google just doesn't load here. I always open a private tab in Firefox to get rid of cookies easily, then load Google, and I don't know if this is the reason but after a while it just stops. Duckduckgo is (for me) the new google in terms of speed, but the search results are not the same quality.

Duckduckgo is very slow for me when it comes to opening things in a new tab(Safari on a laptop). It takes several second for the right click options to come up when right clicking.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by digi_owl »

newscracker wrote: post #78
jagger27 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox's reader mode?

In my understanding, Firefox Reader Mode (and similar features in other browsers) reads in the entire page and, based on analyzing the page for cues, then decides to offer the user an option to choose reader view (or not). So while it helps improve readability, it doesn't cut down the time to load, the amount of data downloaded, and probably helps improve the battery life only marginally (this is debatable, depending…

The impression i have of this reader mode is that it relies, in part, on pages offering markers for printing.

I have in the past noticed that reader mode will not be available of i have killed the JS on a site that enable their print format.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by 0x0 »

pvg wrote: post #25
a012 wrote: post #10

Does this belong to CNN? It's great to read news without clutter, just clear contents. I hope there are many sites like this, it saves you from load the whole page then click the reader mode or similar.

Seems to be using the same CDN with the same hostnames as regular CNN, has their logos, their content, looks theirs.

Then why is it not on a subdomain of cnn.com? Anyone could copy their logo and their content.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by lwhi »

Brilliant. This achieves some key user-centred aims; content is easily navigated, and given prominence above any other feature. I wonder if the addition of aria-roles might add some useful context for screen readers?

In an age when personal assistants are gaining populating, maybe sparse text-centred interfaces are set to gain more popularity?

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