Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 12:52 AM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #257

tshaddox wrote: post #194

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I haven't misunderstood. I simply disagree. If I am on a public web page of a particular resource I should be able to share the URL to anyone else. Neither my user agent nor the other party's user agent should matter. It is ludicrous (and in fact essentially impossible) to check how a URL behaves in every possible user agent before sharing that URL with someone. If I'm on the Wikipedia page for London, I ought to be…

> If I am on a public web page of a particular resource I should be able to share the URL to anyone else. Neither my user agent nor the other party's user agent should matter. This is how mobile wikipedia pages behave. What part of that do you disagree with? Share a mobile page's URL and the person following your link will see the same page you do, no matter what your user-agent is, no matter what their user-agent is…

Post by kirb » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 1:13 AM UTC

Taywee wrote: post #104

jitix wrote: post #74

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I agree with you except the one pain point that Wikipedia still continues to use "m.*" sub-domains for displaying mobile content. I know most people exclusively use mobile these days but I use desktop browsers for reading more than 60% of the time and its really annoying to click on a Wikipedia link on HN/Reddit and having it open the mobile site on desktop. It's OK to use m.* subdomains instead of reactive design bu…

Install Firefox Redirector: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ Add a rule to redirect (https?://)?(\w+\.)m\.wikipedia.org(.*) to $1$2wikipedia.org$3 Then you never have to deal with mobile Wikipedia on desktop again. You can use this for other sites too, like forcing all uses of Reddit to always open in old.reddit.com.

Post by cromka » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 1:18 AM UTC

umvi wrote: post #27

0des wrote: post #6

OP, thanks for making this, I bet it was fun to build. That being said, I want someone to do the opposite of what this does. Less chrome, less bytes over the wire, less predictive search, less "flatness?", less timely, more timeless .

Hear hear. I wish more sites were like HN - more text/information density, less CSS magic, less JS.

Post by toiletfuneral » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 1:28 AM UTC

Dah00n wrote: post #289

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That extension doesn't change how the web is. The web is still the same whether you use client side CSS override or not. This is exactly how CSS and HTML were intended to operate and the kind of results to be expected. > But i am sure there are people who will appreciate your effort. Thank you for your work. How is that called ? A complimentsult ?

There's no insult in saying it isn't for me because ... but good job. Positive criticism can be useful too.

Post by jfrunyon » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 1:40 AM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #138

jfrunyon wrote: post #113

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It's kinda strange that you think someone who is on a phone copying a link and sharing it with someone who is not on a phone, is the latter person "specifically ask[ing]" for the mobile page.

It's strange that when you ask for en.m.wikipedia.org, Wikipedia responds by giving you what you wanted? There is no way to interpret requesting a dedicated mobile URL other than as specifically asking for the mobile version of the page. Or are you saying Wikipedia should be aware that you got the link from your obnoxious friend? HTTP doesn't really allow for that.