A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by szabgab » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 8:22 AM UTC

A Love Letter to Plain Text
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Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by azov » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 10:34 AM UTC

A love letter to plain text would be a bit more lovely without so much unnecessary formatting (colors, borders, and other embellishments).

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by kqr » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 10:35 AM UTC

Without subtracting anything from the main point on plain text, it sounds like this person is in many senses reinventing the Org file format!

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by kqr » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 10:37 AM UTC

azov wrote: post #2

A love letter to plain text would be a bit more lovely without so much unnecessary formatting (colors, borders, and other embellishments).

Plain text as a storage medium, not as a design element.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by frou_dh » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 10:53 AM UTC

azov wrote: post #2

A love letter to plain text would be a bit more lovely without so much unnecessary formatting (colors, borders, and other embellishments).

"Find A Way To Call TFA Author A Hypocrite" seems to be a whole genre of news aggregator comment

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by Avshalom » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 10:54 AM UTC

... starts by loading everything into a database.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by evibeefi » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 11:22 AM UTC

Why is this trending?

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by bartread » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 11:28 AM UTC

frou_dh wrote: post #5

azov wrote: post #2

A love letter to plain text would be a bit more lovely without so much unnecessary formatting (colors, borders, and other embellishments).

"Find A Way To Call TFA Author A Hypocrite" seems to be a whole genre of news aggregator comment

I suspect it's a cheap way to gain karma/rep/internet points.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by bhrgunatha » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 11:36 AM UTC

azov wrote: post #2

A love letter to plain text would be a bit more lovely without so much unnecessary formatting (colors, borders, and other embellishments).

I think it looks beautiful.

And what's more, what an absolute joy to find something published on the web where the text has both good contrast, weight and width.

I'm totally fed up having to use the browser's developer tools or firefox reader mode because the text has font-weight 200/300, slightly darker grey on light grey text and uses less than 30% of my screen width.

It's so sad that this is such a rare treat on the web these days.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by jacquesm » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 11:45 AM UTC

azov wrote: post #2

A love letter to plain text would be a bit more lovely without so much unnecessary formatting (colors, borders, and other embellishments).

Your browser should have a 'no style' option tucked away somewhere. Presentation is - according to the original web spec, not the present monstrosity - mostly the job of the client.