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Re:Show HN: My animated website, rendered entirely in HTML5 ... by striking on Sunday March 15, 2015 @12:02PM (#9206934)
The loss of highlighting text and accessibility (both for the disabled and for the less-tech-enabled). Sure, the site's very pretty. But for someone who just wanted to know whether you had a BS in CS or not, this site is really difficult to use.

I googled your site and found this URL that looked like a PDF (http://ericlesch.com/eric-lesch-resume.pdf), but it didn't work either. You know something's wrong when your users would rather take a PDF than whatever you're doing.

(Also: no robots? Why not? I can't even use Internet Archive to see the past PDF link or the less canvas website, nor can I use Google to search just the text of your site.)

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Re:Show HN: My animated website, rendered entirely in HTML5 ... by santoriv on Sunday March 15, 2015 @12:15PM (#9206983)
The robots.txt is an oversight on my part. I need to get the site working so it's crawlable using the google ajax SEO spec.

The loss of highlighting text and accessibility is unfortunately unavoidable if you are using Canvas or WebGL for rendering. That's the price you pay for having better animation performance - so it's a tradeoff.

And no, I don't have a BS in CS. ;-)

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