Comments on: Pretty and Pathetic

By: Flack

Flack — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:37:00 +0000

The only price I’ve paid for this is that textfiles.com has none of what people might call a “community”. Attempts to bring “the gang” together have failed miserably and I don’t do it anymore. But I do function as a reference point for other groups of people, or to settle arguments, or maybe just comedic relief.

I’d hang out at forum.textfiles.com and I suspect a lot of other regulars would, too. Might be kind of neat to have an area for people to share ideas, comment on your posts, and talk about BBSes, textfiles, your movies, and whatever other topics happen to pop up.

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but sending you BBS lists and other things is always a mix of emotions for me. I have a need for those things to be preserved and I’m eternally glad you’re doing it, but there’s always a bit of guilt about sending someone else a digital mess so-to-speak and knowing that you are causing them work.

By: Steve S.

Steve S. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:19:22 +0000

@l.m.orchard Copy & paste works just fine, even with JS turned on, on Firefox on Windows. It initially doesn’t appear to work though because the characters you are selecting don’t actually highlight.
But the point stands… everything is still there in plain text, whether you have JS on or not. “Progressive enhancement” isn’t an enemy to web accessibility.

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:46:27 +0000

Of course, where typeface.js *doesn’t* degrade gracefully – copy & paste stops working. At least, that’s my experience in Firefox on Mac. I’d hate to try to excerpt from a blog post using this thing for full paragraphs.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:48:38 +0000

Jason, I just wanted to thank you for the tremendous effort this must be. It is truly appreciated by this bbs-user and point-and-click-adventurer.

Keep up the good work, and if you ever need some technical help with the Web2.0 thing, let me know (but you probably heard that one a few times before)

By: Steve S.

Steve S. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:36:34 +0000

“is supported” should read “is not supported”

By: Steve S.

Steve S. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:35:33 +0000

I don’t see a huge issue with typeface.js. It degrades gracefully where JS is supported. Sure, there are accessibility concerns if you don’t turn off JS, but if accessibility is a major concern for you, you aren’t using JS anyways.

By: Steve S.

Steve S. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:34:14 +0000