Posting from the Lynx browser!

Harriet the laptop's touchpad started acting up this evening, so in the interest of being able to do stuff, we ... well, we first went and looked up Xfce keyboard shortcuts (the important ones are Alt+F1 for the Applications menu and Alt+F2 or Alt+F3 for an application ... searcher? something or other), but then we got a terminal open and opened Lynx, the old text-based browser.

To our near-complete lack of surprise, Dreamwidth actually works pretty dang well on a browser with no image support and no Javascript support and no CSS support. It's a bit busy in places - boilerplate taking up screenfuls of space instead of a single header bar - but the only real obstacle to using it as normal is that there's no word-wrapping on text entry. Which is theoretically fine, but asking us to remember what we typed at the beginning of the sentence to be able to make what we type next roughly grammatical is ... well, it's not a huge ask but it is an ask.

But it does work. It's probably like HTTP POST requests or something, classic form requests, no JS needed.

Anyway, lots has been going on and also not much has been going on - we've been having a hard time emotionally but we're surviving. We just got excited for a moment that a web browser from 1992 with SSL support but no JS is still usable on a part of the internet we care about.

(Not Scribble Hub, though. We'll have to rely on good ol' Firefox for our webfiction needs.)