Sat, 16 Mar 2024
Does HTML work in a Shinobi blog?

No.

It's just text. No hypertext (except in the index).

Not having hyperlinks is a limiting factor.

But if you put a full HTML link into the text of an entry and select it on an Android phone, the browser will offer to take you there.

Until I added a few extra paragraphs, this entry rendered with VERY small type on the Chrome browser on Android but looked fine in Firefox on Android.

The blog is designed to be consumed in an RSS feed reader, but it should look good in regular browsers, especially because RSS feed reading is not a *growing category*, even though I am using two such programs now (Thunderbird and Liferea).

It holds up on desktop browsers. I tried the Shinobi feature that wraps the entries at 72 characters wide, but that makes the phone entries display with poor line breaks. I'd rather have the desktop version go too wide. That can be "fixed" by narrowing the browser window. Or not.