[edent]

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

I submitted it to the site a few minutes ago.

[jonatron]

If you serve this with:

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

You can actually have no HTML at all

[edent]

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

[devoutsalsa]

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

[Lockal]

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`)

[jwilk]

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

[drivers99]

Ah, cool, someone already had the same thought:

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

[em-bee]

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

[innocenat]

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)

[em-bee]

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.

[innocenat]

Yes, that's the joke.

[vunuxodo]

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

[ris58h]

... but they couldn't...

[dicytea]

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

[edent]

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

[unsungNovelty]

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

[dist-epoch]

Honestly your site is unnecessarily bloated with Unicode.

For an English language site, ASCII is enough.

[SketchySeaBeast]

I see you too read the flow chart.

[Tomte]

Unless you go to a café.

[toastal]

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.

[fjert]

Looks even better with view source on a dark background

[ftl64]

This is art. Perfection, even.

[tentacleuno]

Honestly, it looks really good. Cool work!

[Fred34]

Nice ASCII art

[_Algernon_]

Perfection