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Comment by psnehanshu | Hacker News Reader

Bad idea, I will like to be able to click on links, and see pictures. ASCII art is fun, but cannot be a staple.

> ASCII art is fun, but cannot be a staple.

FTR, ASCII art on avaialble only inon https://shinobi.website frontpage ("index.txt"[0]), but not in introducing article ("introducing-shinobi-website.txt"[1]).

[0] https://shinobi.website/index.txt

[1] https://shinobi.website/posts/introducing-shinobi-website.tx...

Yeah, and there's no way to insert a picture except for ASCII art. Sounds like a really bad idea.

Well you could host it somewhere, and then link to it. Maybe you'd want it inline though so I guess we could wrap it in some text that tells the browser to show it. Come to think of it, some text like headers could so with a similar treatment. Now we have text but like, more, hyper if you will.

> link to it

Not possible in text-only Shinobi websites.

> Maybe you'd want it inline though

Yes absolutely.

> so I guess we could wrap it in some text that tells the browser to show it.

You must use HTML to "tell the browser to show it". Shinobis are text-only. So you're out of luck.

I believe you may have missed the joke, allow me to be clearer. I agree you must use text, but with those tags to allow that functionality (showing images and such), wouldn't it be better, or, hyper? A from of "hypertext" written in a markup language. Perhaps we should use an abbreviation to refer to it?

Pardon my tiny brain, your joke is one league above mine.

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