Re:Why I Don't Use Netscape
by nine_k on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:30AM
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No. It's not about anything old; it's about stripping down to their essence.
A browser that can render text, and not much beside the text, emphasizes the text of a page, which, for many pages, is the content the user came for. Everything else is fluff.
In modern times, "Reader mode" in browsers does the same thing: removes fluff to make reading easier.
Of course it's great that now browsers support advanced features and enable amazing interactive pages like https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/, or just "simple" GMail. But such pages, and such highly interactive web applications, are fewer and further between than most pages that provide value by showing just static text and static images.
A browser that can render text, and not much beside the text, emphasizes the text of a page, which, for many pages, is the content the user came for. Everything else is fluff.
In modern times, "Reader mode" in browsers does the same thing: removes fluff to make reading easier.
Of course it's great that now browsers support advanced features and enable amazing interactive pages like https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/, or just "simple" GMail. But such pages, and such highly interactive web applications, are fewer and further between than most pages that provide value by showing just static text and static images.