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From: Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com>
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Subject: Re: Newsgrouper - a web interface to Usenet (text only)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:10:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:32:10 +0000, Colin Macleod wrote:

> Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> posted:
>> 
>> Another way would be to open the thread with the read posts
>>  'rolled up'. ISTR GG did that. Are you avoiding javascript?
>>  
> Thanks for the feedback, that's a few things for me to think about.
> Yes, I have avoided javascript so far.

The other feature which would require a bit of javascript is rolling-up 
quoted text, with a button to reveal it. That would enormously reduce 
scrolling and make responses more visible.

Using tables and 100% of the display width is easy, but on really small 
screens, tends to have unreadably-small fonts. On Android I usually 
restyle such sites to make the important stuff - eg the post text - 
viewable with a minimum of zooming at the expense of, say, date/times and 
email addresses.

You could produce stylesheets yourself for small screens, or invite people 
to contribute them. Either way may I suggest you liberally add IDs and 
classes to your fields?

There is a site - https://mudcat.org - which was written in 1998 using 
tables and lacks any CSS. As a result my sylesheets have lines like this:

body > table:nth-child(2) > tbody > tr > td:nth-child(1) > table  {font-
size...

So much easier if that was <td class="thread-subject"> or whatever.

Anyway, a promising start. Usable on Firefox on a 4½ iPhone - which, 
unlike on Android, I cannot restyle.
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