The introduction of hamburger menus broken many of the Alt+Letter shortcut workflows. Even to this day, GNOME applications are hard to fully control via keyboard.
I'll never understand how this can be deemed acceptable from an accessibility standpoint.
For all of GNOME's faults, it's provided me a much better experience than other DE's. XFCE and others don't handle fractional scaling nearly as gracefully as GNOME does. KDE is probably the closest but you still have the issue of running GTK/QT apps and they all look very different and jarring on the desktop.
I disliked the black bars release(v3 I think) so much that I moved back to KDE and then also tried lxqt, xfce and i3 but never GNOME. If not for that release I would have probably been stuck with only GNOME and never try other options.
Cinnamon and MATE are the directions I’d have preferred for Gnome to go. It’s a good thing devs like this aren’t designing cars. I really don’t want to steer my car with the foot pedals and throttle with my hands.
I feel like the article should've been called "plaintext-only websites" or something, because if you had asked me I would've also defined "text-only" as image/video-less websites
I struggle with the purity of meaning for text-only as well. Before this thread, I didn't understand the mime settings; I've been living a lie with a browser friendly landing page that uses:
<!DOCTYPE HTML><plaintext>
And then all the other pages of the site to be pure *.txt files. In the end, until there are standards to point to, I just accept minimalism as the scale. I have ads, layouts, boxes / frames, and all sorts of possibly annoying aspects to my textsites. It is a medium that's just as easily abused as any!
"No arbitrary code execution" is how I'd put it. "Ads" can be plain text, they just usually aren't on the internet. If a plain text site decided to include them once in a while, I'd celebrate the choice.
Fun to think of it but I think my website actually got removed from that list because it has a logo on top of each page. It is available as “text only” (although not text/plain but text/markdown) by substituting the .xhtml with .md in the URL unlike some other pages on the textonly.website list, though :)
A lot of what the newer hosts provide is making your SPA or other JS framework app 'just work' without extra config. E.g. your build generates /index.html and the host will redirect all other paths to that file.
Also, if it's about cost then whatever cloud bucket plus CDN is going to be typically free and will scale to infinity for very cheap. Everyone dreams of a random blog post being on top of HN after all.
I suppose whether that's simpler depends on if you are familiar with the cloud offerings, but many people are through {dayjob}. For me, I'd rather use similar tooling for work and personal projects, so I don't have to think too much about it.
The Orion browser has been great for me on MacOS and iOS. It won’t help you with your Android requirement, but every other point is covered! (Allows for Firefox / Chrome extensions too)
I will give it a try. The icon reminds me of an old browser called Camino (if I remember the name correctly). I loved that browser.
A quick notice: I opted to play the intro video and the video was completely useless, without any control or a way to exit or anything at all. Luckily it didn't go for mins but it was also not like a splash screen. Honestly that is not a very good first impression imho.
But the interface is very promising. Doesn't look "odd" on Mac the way I feel on Brave or even Safari. Will give it a shot. Imported everything from Safari except passwords.
