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I agree. That's why I made http://no-ht.ml/

I submitted it to the site a few minutes ago.

If you serve this with:

    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

You can actually have no HTML at all

I did try that, but a few mobile browsers seemed to choke without at least something vaguely HTMLish.

I prefer “application/json”. The user can write their own interface.

What happens when server responds with text/plain and css?

https://blog.openreplay.com/incorporating-css-to-a-page-via-... (no time to check, only works in Firefox, but that's one idea on how to trick the system)

Upd: checked and it works (e. g. add `Link: <https://unpkg.com/chota@latest>;rel=stylesheet;media=all`)

Discussed on HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33645398 (32 comments)

Ah, cool, someone already had the same thought:

> I'll eagerly await the ASCII-only "You Don't Need Unicode"

the foreign language speakers here would like to have a word...

Good old codepage to the rescue!

(Yes, I know technically codepage isn't ASCII. I guess you could use box drawing extension to draw foreign language character if you wanted. Or maybe just SVG of the text)

please not codepages. finally being able to write multiple languages in a single document, which is something i need to do frequently, really makes a difference. codepages were a nightmare compared to the simplicity that unicode is in this aspect.

Yes, that's the joke.

... but they couldn't...

They should have thought of that before they put non-ASCII characters in their language.

The table didn't render that well for me: https://i.imgur.com/afFkYe1.png

I suggest you upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer.

I like the work you share Edent. Big fan of SuperTinyIcons!

Honestly your site is unnecessarily bloated with Unicode.

For an English language site, ASCII is enough.

I see you too read the flow chart.

Unless you go to a café.

These make me feel weird. On one hand, I love the way justified way it takes me back to old READMEs, GameFAQs, etc. but on the other all accessibility is thrown out the window.

Looks even better with view source on a dark background

This is art. Perfection, even.

Honestly, it looks really good. Cool work!

Nice ASCII art

Perfection

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