Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999

Re:Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 by unexistance on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:59PM (#7837316)

I did pretty much the same, but I always hunt for the print-able version of the page. If it's not there, use Readability.

If the output is still garbage, I use UnMHT, select the text / article then 'save as'.

If article's purposely set multi-page, tough luck, no solution to that yet ...

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Re:Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @12:16AM (#7838117)

There's the depagination extension on Firefox. I'm not aware of similar for Chrome.

Another that works far too often is:

    lynx --dump <url> | less

... where I use the dump as less is far easier to navigate than lynx (never really could get used to it). w3m also works pretty well.

Or pandoc, which can fetch from URL and output to your specified format (another good way of bypassing craptastic Web formatting). Hrm...

Interesting. I get a TLS error attempting this on HN.

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Re:Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 by voltagex_ on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @01:54AM (#7838358)

Holy crap, HTML through pandoc is a great solution. Thank you!

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Re:Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999 by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @05:23PM (#7842821)

You're welcome.

I just discovered that reading through the manpage the other day ;-)

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