A Love Letter to Plain Text • Hacker News Board

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by solarkraft » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 11:54 AM UTC

Nice that I see this article just while I'm working on a theme for Hugo. I like TOML and YAML for their simple approaches. You'll usually need some kind of structure, though.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by qrbLPHiKpiux » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 12:03 PM UTC

Avshalom wrote: post #6

... starts by loading everything into a database.

A far cry from jekyll

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by Avamander » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 12:22 PM UTC

Whoa that's an ugly webpage. It's so huge!

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by adamkruszewski » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 12:37 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #10

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.

Isn't "reader mode" available on some browsers almost a "no style" option? I use it exactly for that reason. I admit not every page is reader-mode-enabled but I just don't bother with those.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by venuur » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 12:56 PM 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).

Ageed! It was too painful to read on my phone. Dark red on black is a questionable design choice. I appreciate the desire to standout, but usability should trump style.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by rootlocus » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 1:19 PM 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

Only for articles with pretentious titles.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by Aaargh20318 » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 1:22 PM UTC

What is 'plain text' ? Is it ASCII ? 7 or 8 bit ? EBCDIC ? UTF-8 ?

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by rootlocus » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 1:26 PM UTC

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #17

What is 'plain text' ? Is it ASCII ? 7 or 8 bit ? EBCDIC ? UTF-8 ?

Encodings do not make text a binary format. This pedantry is uncalled for.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by Aaargh20318 » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 1:29 PM UTC

rootlocus wrote: post #18

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #17

What is 'plain text' ? Is it ASCII ? 7 or 8 bit ? EBCDIC ? UTF-8 ?

Encodings do not make text a binary format. This pedantry is uncalled for.

I'm just saying there is no such thing as 'plain text'.

I also think that plain text is a bad idea, binary files are much easier to parse.

Re: A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Post by mathgeek » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 1:34 PM 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 came in expecting the article to be pretty light on formatting, yet this one was one of the most oddly formatted articles I've read in a while. It's quite strange.