top | item 21630042 (no title) jnty | 6 years ago The definition of niche is literally "appeals to a small, specialized section of the population" so, er, yes. discuss order hn newest normalnorm|6 years ago Perhaps, but in this case Google would just have to comply with the standards, which are not niche at all. coldtea|6 years ago The standards just describe what to do to make a standards compliant HTML page, what tags are allowed etc.There are no standards that say that e.g. your page can't be all dependent on JS.In other words, Google could be 100% standards compliant, and not work in Lynx. load replies (1) creato|6 years ago According to another comment thread, this isn't accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629207
normalnorm|6 years ago Perhaps, but in this case Google would just have to comply with the standards, which are not niche at all. coldtea|6 years ago The standards just describe what to do to make a standards compliant HTML page, what tags are allowed etc.There are no standards that say that e.g. your page can't be all dependent on JS.In other words, Google could be 100% standards compliant, and not work in Lynx. load replies (1) creato|6 years ago According to another comment thread, this isn't accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629207
coldtea|6 years ago The standards just describe what to do to make a standards compliant HTML page, what tags are allowed etc.There are no standards that say that e.g. your page can't be all dependent on JS.In other words, Google could be 100% standards compliant, and not work in Lynx. load replies (1)
creato|6 years ago According to another comment thread, this isn't accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629207
normalnorm|6 years ago
coldtea|6 years ago
There are no standards that say that e.g. your page can't be all dependent on JS.
In other words, Google could be 100% standards compliant, and not work in Lynx.
creato|6 years ago