More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization

Re:More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @04:14AM (#12350514)

There's "most" pager discussed here a week or so ago, too.

(Incidentally that link returns a blank page for me on FF mobile.)

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Re:More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization by pmontra on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @04:34AM (#12350588)

I missed most, I'll look for it.

The link to pg works on my FF Android. I'm using uBlock origin. Are you using some other adblocker or add on?

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Re:More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization by amavisca on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:42AM (#12350784)

The link is similarly a white screen on Android Chrome for me.

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Re:More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization by pmontra on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:13AM (#12350911)

Hopefully this works http://man.he.net/?topic=pg&section=all

The page source is as simple as it could have been in 1996 :-)

The original link has a broken table layout with some unbalanced </table> and </tr>. Maybe that breaks rendering on your browsers, but why not on my Firefox?

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Re:More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization by Sylos on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @08:24AM (#12351478)

For me, not only the page is completely empty, but also the page-source, so I don't think that it's a rendering problem and rather the server sending a 0-long HTML-file or something like that.

It also finishes loading rather quickly, so it would only make sense that it's not even downloading anything.

And neither Firefox, nor Lightning Browser (WebView-based), nor CyanogenMod's Gello Browser (Chromium-based) show any form of error and just happily render a completely empty page.

Also, I do get the favicon displayed, so at least some form of connection to the server seems to be possible.

Edit: Just had another idea. It works for me when I tell Firefox to request the desktop site. So, maybe the server just gets confused by a mobile useragent-string...?

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Re:More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization by Sylos on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @08:53AM (#12351627)

Posting this here, too, for visibility:

The page works for me when I tell my browser to request the desktop site.

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Re:More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization by pmontra on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @01:27PM (#12353651)

Ops, I realized that I configured my mobile browsers to request the desktop sites. It's more convenient on a tablet.

    curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Mobile Safari/535.19' http://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/1/pg/

returns nothing so it's definitely a mobile unfriendly site.

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