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Posted Feb 10, 2026 2:13 UTC (Tue) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648)
Parent article: Offpunk 3.0 released

Without even JavaScript support, it's not going to be very useful for most sites, unfortunately.

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Posted Feb 10, 2026 2:50 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (3 responses)

That is likely a deliberate choice, it comes from a community that wants to leave the modern web behind.

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Posted Feb 10, 2026 21:00 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (2 responses)

Why bother with web support then? Just invent some kind of lightweight protocol and go from there.

I think that was even done, before, though.

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Posted Feb 10, 2026 21:29 UTC (Tue) by denials (subscriber, #3413) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, yes.

Gopher predated the web.

Gemini (https://geminiprotocol.net/ -- not the Google AI thing) began in 2019 in response to what the web has become.

But there are advantages to still being able to access where 99.9% of content lives in the interim.

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Posted Feb 11, 2026 7:31 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Had look at Gemini. Looks interesting, but I think it takes its textual purism one step too far: No inline images. Some way of adding illustrations to a text without starting an external viewer is needed, even if only allowing them to appear between paragraphs with no fancy layout options.

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Posted Feb 12, 2026 13:53 UTC (Thu) by ego (guest, #182305) [Link]

Well actually most of the site I use Offpunk to read the articles load very well, thanks to the library they use behind the scene to clean up all the crap. Unmerdify I think it is called.
There are exceptions of course, but then, I can always use 'open url' command to send it to my graphical browser.