Re:Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal versio...
by analog31 on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:32PM
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Could the browser tackle this? If I understand it correctly, in broad strokes, nothing comes down unless the browser asks the server for it.
I'm dating myself, but when I first learned about HTML, the idea was that text would be organized so the browser could make it more readable for you, based on your needs. For instance, a deaf person could use a text-to-speech browser, and perhaps the heading tags would help them navigate the document.
Today's web page simply treat the screen as a graphical canvas.
In those old days, I also learned that having a crummy obsolete browser for my crummy obsolete computer actually sped up browsing because my browser was simply incapable of downloading the stuff that ate bandwidth.
I'm dating myself, but when I first learned about HTML, the idea was that text would be organized so the browser could make it more readable for you, based on your needs. For instance, a deaf person could use a text-to-speech browser, and perhaps the heading tags would help them navigate the document.
Today's web page simply treat the screen as a graphical canvas.
In those old days, I also learned that having a crummy obsolete browser for my crummy obsolete computer actually sped up browsing because my browser was simply incapable of downloading the stuff that ate bandwidth.