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I miss websites that look like lynx's: https://lynx.browser.org/

Missing one line to look good in mobile.

  <meta name="viewport" 
     content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

What does that do, and why is it not the default?

Many mobile devices render pages in a virtual window aka viewport, which is wider than the screen, and then shrink the rendered result down so it can all be seen at once.

Mobile browsers can stop doing that any time they want. They do it because pages not optimized for mobile and break often in mobile.

This 'shit-sifting' phenomenon in common in open protocols with lots of software and inertia.

1. Bad shit in the other end breaks this end.

2. Fix it with hack in this end.

3. Good shit in the other end is now bad shit with the fix.

4. Add workaround to make good shit good again.

(Microsoft Internet Explorer was born after Bill Gates did seance and Satan taught him to use this phenomenon to corrupt the internet.)

Added. Makes the text better but now the screenshot is too large. Bloody HTML.

I prefer to add

  <style>
    img, video { max-width:100%;}
  </style>

That landing page seems unmaintained, I think this is the main home page: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

> That landing page seems unmaintained.

I maintained it for a while, then delegated the DNS to someone else, but they didn't maintain it either, swapped it back. ~I'll update it when I get a chance.~

edit: Updated with the correct version and some small HTML tweaks

This says:

> Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall

...

> Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.

For that reason I don't think it's a good page to recommend.

The font in the screenshot is Cosmic Sans [sic],

https://github.com/gregkh/cosmic-sans-neue

which was later renamed Fantasque due to hate mail.

Do you mean the naming similarity to Comic Sans?

> The font in the screenshot is Cosmic Sans

Probably Fantasque because I've (to the best of my memory) never installed Cosmic Sans (and I made the screenshot, obvs.) but I do occasionally use Fantasque for terminals.

But since the screenshot needs updating, I'm open to suggestions for what font to use this time.

Opted for Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono, Bold, at 20pt.

Unreadable on a phone without zooming and panning. A little CSS wouldn’t be a bad thing here.

Perfectly readable in Firefox Mobile. Chrome too. What mobile browser are you using?

also works with android "Stoutner privacy browser" with java scripts, cookies, DOM, turned OFF went strait to the resources page, where there are versions for a lot of different OS's nothing for android, but not realy expecting to find that, anyway.

You mean unreadable on mobile due to tiny text?

Should we blame an old timey basic webpage for its lack of complexity or should we blame a modern browser for not accommodating the web in its most simple form?

We can walk and chew gum? Also, how much complexity do you think is needed to fix this by the webpage?

It would be up to the browser to render HTML sensibly. Use a browser that can.

There is a specification that says how it should be rendered. I definitely don't want every browser to decide how to render my webpage, that would just make development so much harder and complex.

Looked fine for me on mobile.

I’m sorry to hear that lunch to zoom is hard on your fingers

It's perfectly readable on Brave for Android. The text even wraps to the screen size so you don't have to scroll.

Which phone browser renders it in an unreadable manner?

Any phone browser that rendered the page before they added a simple fix

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