Realization: A web without brackets is the better web – folding all brackets

Curious: in which branch of English dialect are parentheses called &quot;brackets&quot;?<p>This is a clever little hack which I do not want <i>at all</i>, but I admire the author&#x27;s creativity in coming up with it.

What is bracket folding? What kind of brackets is this even talking about? Read the whole page, tried to interact with the “Try it here” section, still have no clue whatsoever what this is supposed to be.

Seems a bit like StretchText.<p>In general parentheses in text should arguably be avoided in text. They almost always make the text harder to read. You can generally re-arrange the text to be clearer, sometimes by simply removing the parenthesis, in others by moving the aside to its own paragraph.

Interesting idea. I definitely wouldn&#x27;t use it. I don&#x27;t trust that parenthesized information is generally omittable, and I don&#x27;t want to do lots of clicking.

I would consider localizing for en-US visitors as many will have no idea what you mean by “brackets”.<p>I would also suggest that you actually make the landing page “work”, whatever that means for your tool, with no extension — on mobile I could not make it do anything at all.<p>Good luck!

We already have footnotes for information that is not intended be shown by default.

I don&#x27;t recall the last time I read something with excessive use of brackets&#x2F;parentheses. This seems like a solution in search of a problem.

Or replace brackets with commas (nobody would usually notice the difference.) I started doing it in my own writing (or I just drop the text inside the brackets.)

Browser extension to collapse all brackets on any website. Everything becomes so clean and readable. Beautiful.

The better solution is to write better sites.