[HN Gopher] Only <Span>S
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       Only <Span>S
        
       Author : lifthrasiir
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-04-16 07:29 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (onlyspans.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (onlyspans.net)
        
       | spott wrote:
       | This is one massive blob of text in reader mode. No line breaks
       | show up.
        
       | rrr_oh_man wrote:
       | It's neat, but during my dabbling in web dev I've noticed that
       | you can use basically _< whatever>...</whatever>_ instead of
       | divs, spans, sections, and it still mostly just _works_.
        
         | CM30 wrote:
         | Yeah, you could replace every single span on this page with
         | almost any other HTML element and it'd work fine. But I guess
         | onlylists or onlyh1s or onlybolds doesn't quite roll off the
         | tongue as well.
        
         | bluefirebrand wrote:
         | Accessibility will be absolutely destroyed though
        
           | xpl wrote:
           | I am pretty sure in the end accessibility will more likely be
           | solved by some smart LLMs (with vision) interpreting
           | arbitrary web pages on the user side, rather than by web
           | developers coding it by hand. Because the latter obviously
           | doesn't universally work.
           | 
           | I would pay money for a browser plugin that restyles every
           | web page to a single readable/accessible design that I like.
           | Think "Reader Mode" on steroids (that could transform
           | arbitrary GUIs, not just blog posts).
        
             | interstice wrote:
             | Interesting idea, and I'd think mostly only limited by
             | cost/speed per token currently
        
             | edent wrote:
             | In the end? Maybe.
             | 
             | What about the people who can't use the web _now_?
        
             | dartos wrote:
             | > I would pay money for a browser plugin that restyles
             | every web page to a single readable/accessible design that
             | I like.
             | 
             | Sometimes designs you don't like are intentional.
        
           | dartos wrote:
           | Not if you are good with ur aria tags.
        
         | ivanjermakov wrote:
         | And you often don't even need a closing tag
        
       | gibbitz wrote:
       | Tho I get the onlyfans reference, why not only <u>?
        
       | zamalek wrote:
       | This is basically what was happening late 90s and early 2000s,
       | except with the div. ARIA didn't exist at the time so this
       | presented a major accessibility issue. We now have ARIA, but the
       | "use the right element" cargo cult persists [there's nothing
       | wrong with this cargo cult - it just fits the definition, CSSing
       | it up is just as functional sans older and possibly text
       | browsers].
       | 
       | Edit: it's also where table got a bad rap (for a while table
       | wasn't even used for tables, it was completely taboo). Using
       | table for layout completely wrecked accessibility.
        
       | favorited wrote:
       | And this https://imgur.com/2gF1cfl is how all those <spans> look
       | in Reader mode.
        
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