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Re:The Web We Want by Karunamon on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:46AM (#11894789)
faster and stable

And uglier, and limited. While the people here might not have any problem with the entire web looking like Ward Cunningham's wiki, I doubt the public at large feels the same...

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Re:The Web We Want by DanBC on Monday June 13, 2016 @12:06PM (#11894970)
This is not an attractive website. This site is objectively fucking awful because of the cruft. (Most of the time pages don't load for me. See this as one example: http://imgur.com/4WgHhVh )

http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/

See also: Almost any other local newspaper website, from anywhere in the world.

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Re:The Web We Want by extra88 on Monday June 13, 2016 @12:00PM (#11894933)
Ensuring that the lowest-end gets some experience doesn't mean modern devices and browsers must have an uglier or limited experience. Progressive enhancement, it's a thing.
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