Almost none of the sites in that list are actually text. They’re just minimally styled html/css.

This entirely depends on your perspective/interpretation of “text-only”.

To me, having only text as the output with no ads, videos, or images is “text-only”. It doesn’t matter how it’s presented as long as it’s just text.

But I also see your perspective. You want plain defaults with white background color, black foreground color, and no formatting.

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subdavis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This thread is about text the MIME type. It’s not a subjective definition.

> The rules are simple - content which has the MIME type of text/plain. No HTML, no multimedia, no RTF, no XML, no ANSI colour escape sequences.

Your definition is fine for you, but it’s not what TFA is about.

	▲	abejfehr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I feel like the article should've been called "plaintext-only websites" or something, because if you had asked me I would've also defined "text-only" as image/video-less websites

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loganc2342 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s more so that “text” in this case refers to “text (.txt) file” rather than “letters and numbers”

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kgwxd 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"No arbitrary code execution" is how I'd put it. "Ads" can be plain text, they just usually aren't on the internet. If a plain text site decided to include them once in a while, I'd celebrate the choice.