<story><title>ASCII Art Weather</title><url>http://wttr.in/london</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mediumdeviation</author><text>Try looking at the source of the page. There&amp;#x27;s no way in hell anyone would call that &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; the data necessary to convey the information.&lt;p&gt;The site is also unusable on mobile, because ASCII art unlike proper semantic HTML is not easily rescalable by the browser. And it&amp;#x27;s inaccessible by users relying on screen readers, ironically because of all the ASCII cruft.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s impressed me about this is how much faster it is than Web pages or Android apps.&lt;p&gt;Really:  just transmit the data necessary to convey your information.  Your app is in the way.&lt;p&gt;wttr.in on Android using Termux is actually pretty awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>torgoguys</author><text>&amp;gt;The site is also unusable on mobile, because ASCII art unlike proper semantic HTML is not easily rescalable by the browser. And it&amp;#x27;s inaccessible by users relying on screen readers, ironically because of all the ASCII cruft.&lt;p&gt;As web developers, we&amp;#x27;re used to &amp;quot;everyone&amp;quot; being the audience, but that&amp;#x27;s not the case here. As a stylized visual representation of the weather, it&amp;#x27;s fine. I dig it.&lt;p&gt;Making sure something is accessible to screen readers is generally an important thing (and &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; be worked on here) but I give this project a pass because the visual design is the whole point of the exercise.&lt;p&gt;And while I viewed this on mobile (and was fine for me with zooming), that clearly isn&amp;#x27;t the audience. Again, it could be improved if the author felt like it, but even if &amp;quot;fixed&amp;quot; (perhaps having morning, noon, evening, night being stacked vertically on mobile) I don&amp;#x27;t think this would be hardly anybody&amp;#x27;s goto weather reference on mobile. It&amp;#x27;s meant for us desktop users who are lovers of the terminal aesthetic.</text></comment>
<story><title>ASCII Art Weather</title><url>http://wttr.in/london</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mediumdeviation</author><text>Try looking at the source of the page. There&amp;#x27;s no way in hell anyone would call that &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; the data necessary to convey the information.&lt;p&gt;The site is also unusable on mobile, because ASCII art unlike proper semantic HTML is not easily rescalable by the browser. And it&amp;#x27;s inaccessible by users relying on screen readers, ironically because of all the ASCII cruft.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s impressed me about this is how much faster it is than Web pages or Android apps.&lt;p&gt;Really:  just transmit the data necessary to convey your information.  Your app is in the way.&lt;p&gt;wttr.in on Android using Termux is actually pretty awesome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emcrazyone</author><text>FYI: It scaled perfectly fine on my Android&amp;#x2F;Galaxy S5 so while it&amp;#x27;s scalable, I can&amp;#x27;t comment on how &amp;quot;easily scalable&amp;quot; it is nor if screen readers would have a problem.&lt;p&gt;I would think screen readers would have no impact.  Text is pretty much text (utf8, etc...) and the scaling is handled by your font choice not your text choice.&lt;p&gt;^^shrug^^</text></comment>