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      1. Very excited for this! Accessing the internet via mobile without data or WiFi #jsconfeu alexandras_dev
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      By whitelisting certain tags and stripping the rest out of webpage html, alexandras_dev was able to only send the most vital parts of a webpage in 140-char chunks. #jsconfeu
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    She also replaced common words with abbreviations ("and" -> &) and used shorter synonyms for longer words. #jsconfeu
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      This is amazing! By converting link HREFs to short strings and storing the mapping of full URLs to short URLs in redis, she could follow links by only sending a few chars to the server via SMS 🤯 #jsconfeu
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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        It keeps getting better. She's mapping common html tags to the Greek alphabet (so as not to interfere with Roman letters in html) to save even more characters. #jsconfeu
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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          "This is what it looks like... What Google looked like 15 years ago! And it used 3 SMS messages rather than the 1300 it would have done" alexandras_dev #jsconfeu
          oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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            alexandras_dev this has to be one of the best talks I've seen this weekend!