Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Web (HTML) Sux Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:38:44 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <20251226083844.000028b2@gmail.com> References: <10i7khm$2e0ab$3@dont-email.me> <10i8lit$2ltf1$1@dont-email.me> <10i8u2b$2p3ha$1@dont-email.me> <69487137@news.ausics.net> <20251222135823.000042ea@gmail.com> <10igj8v$v06c$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9521badb184dfcdb2e2a31cede276ce4"; logging-data="2905096"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+STiejwQVH1kKV4TAYHT+sxxb/SsdaEA=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y0MFB3DP9H39gxdn77EnJio9vTc= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79870 On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:37:03 +0000 Nuno Silva wrote: > I feel like linking > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thepracticaldev/orly-full-res/master/breakingthebackbutton-big.png > > (Text description which I used in a post [1] on a platform where this > problem is present (Mastodon, in the official web UI): Gah, *yes.* There are bigger offenders in terms of usability, but that one stands out for sheer unnecessary malevolence; you have to *work* to break it, which tells you a lot about the web designers who do. > Mastodon's official web UI is quite strong on these issues. It's > amazing that you get more from a "page info" dialog with the metadata > than from looking at a post page without Javascript. That is, they > are serving the post content inside HEAD as metadata, but refuse to > make it easy to load it without JS. Even if it required JS to load > replies, it's already serving text and images from the post, so it'd > not cost more to put it in the body... Profoundly aggravating - all the more coming from something developed by people who are *supposed* to be more knowledgeable than the average corporate IT drone.