Gregory's ServerThe amount of hours I sunk into this Markdown-to-plain-text converter is harrowing. But I think it works, now. With tests.
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The amount of hours I sunk into this Markdown-to-plain-text converter is harrowing. But I think it works, now. With tests. 1 comment
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And once again I feel a bit of surprise when I open the Gopher browser on my phone and look at my own site. Specially now, having spent all those hours on line wrapping, I realize once again that fixed line length is unsuitable for tiny screens and portrait oriented screens on top of that. I can compensate using the phone in landscape orientation and zoom the text (thank you, Lagrange). I guess my point is: The real, major improvements for me, as a reader, over all these decades:
UTF-8 and all the Unicode features: Mixing scripts, mixing writing directions, better typography with quotes, dashes, and so on.
Liquid design such that display size and orientation no longer matter.
And once again I feel a bit of surprise when I open the Gopher browser on my phone and look at my own site. Specially now, having spent all those hours on line wrapping, I realize once again that fixed line length is unsuitable for tiny screens and portrait oriented screens on top of that. I can compensate using the phone in landscape orientation and zoom the text (thank you, Lagrange). I guess my point is: The real, major improvements for me, as a reader, over all these decades: