I am pretty sure nobody writes code like this
I confirmed your example, reading with lynx and w3m.
wouldn’t just directly opening the sources (in a text editor) be simpler? Is there a (simple) way to preserve the experience when browsing using Lynx without also holding back features aimed at a regular browsing experience?
I second that. I have always been annoyed by the ransom-note appearance of colorized listings. But that's just my taste. I suspect, though, that lots of people have been frustrated when they discover they can't use the code they see because it's festooned with markup. Golang.org offers similar listings, but also provides a button for selecting the underlying plain text. I would like hackage a lot better if it did so, too. Doug