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sara

I want to build a web spec subset that’s essentially 8-bit websites. I feel like the idea of responsive design (beyond dark mode) hasn’t really considered allowing for layers of interaction that might alter the overall interface in a way that’s not tied to viewport size, device, connection speed, or browser.

Like a “low poly mode” might work in a game engine? The advantage here might be a rendering mode that’s creatively inventive, but efficiently rendering a site in a limited resource context.

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sara

In what is a likely naive idea here, it would be exciting to build a bowser rom for #uxn (or my own uxn-inspired nuxm) that allows for this limited mode, so sites (local or otherwise) could be loaded and rendered within the system, making websites possible on small systems.

⛧ esoterik ⛧

@sara i had the idea to build a local-only #uxn gemini browser to start with. i think that would be pretty achievable, and could eventually use some kind of networking extension to uxn

Devine Lu Linvega

@d6 @sara I have a few ideas on this topic, I think beyond a "web" browser, it might be fun to have a file format designed to embed images, fonts and sounds in a way that is not too difficult to write a reader for on small systems like Uxn.

It would make it possible for anyone to write their own viewer, on various systems. A server and browser for this file-format would be the next step.

Devine Lu Linvega

@d6 @sara I'd love to see an image or sound format for these files designed with the philosophy of something like gopher and gemini.

A lower bar than png and jpg could inspire people to write their own parsers in minimal systems.

Morgan Arnold

@neauoire @d6 @sara for an image format i think that qoi is a very strong candidate. it doesn't create prohibitively large files like farbfeld does, but the reference implementation in C is just 300 sloc

sara

Extrapolated from here, one could load a local copy of a website on a game boy cart.

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