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Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#101

Post by egypturnash »

411111111111111 wrote: post #71
ivanhoe wrote: post #66

Sure, it's super easy when your page doesn't have even a header and/or a footer. Try having a top-menu in your design, or some banners/ads, and then you need to change ALL the pages to change a single url. This is how we used to do things long time ago, and it sucked BIG TIME, and that's why people invented server-side includes and cgi and mod_php and all of that... it saves time, and your time costs much more than h…

To be fair, static site generators are a thing and are very much underused in cooperations. He could have the same scores/performance and still get the full advantages you mentioned. But yes, handcrafting html is pointless at some point, especially if you have to update the contents every so often

"I looked at static site generators like Jekyll, Hugo, 11ty, but all of these require tooling installed, have a build step and will ultimately need some updates or be abandoned by their maintainer." - from the article

Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#102

Post by robertoandred »

5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #91
LeonenTheDK wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the exact thing I experienced and have been dealing with the past couple days. I wanted to create a small collection of pages as my website, intending to keep everything as small and simple as possible since it was (mostly) just to display some basic info and "posts". Well as soon as I wanted that menu for pages it was a whole new can of worms. Sure, I could just copy/paste/replace content as it changes. But…

HTML, CSS and SSI includes would be an easier option. If you don't want to deal with Node.

How do you set the state of a nav with SSI? Does it know what the page being built is?

Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#103

Post by winrid »

dceddia wrote: post #27
Rauchg wrote: post #21

This is an inaccurate over-simplification. If you just use HTML and CSS, you can also have really bad Lighthouse scores. For example, vanilla ` ` will ship the same image to every device, regardless of viewport size. Vanilla ` ` doesn't enforce setting `width` and `height`, which makes your layouts shift. Slow-loading images and layout shifts are the very things that will downgrade the "100" score he's currently prou…

Oh boy, YouTube embeds! I went through checking the Lighthouse score on a few of my pages a while back, and the ones that had videos were performing pretty badly. It turned out that embedded YouTube videos were pulling down something like 1mb of JS, just to show the thumbnail , before the user even clicked Play. I ended up making a static thumbnail with a hover-over "play" icon that would replace itself with the real…

You can also use lazy loading with iframes.

Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#104

Post by [deleted] »

ivanhoe wrote: post #66

Sure, it's super easy when your page doesn't have even a header and/or a footer. Try having a top-menu in your design, or some banners/ads, and then you need to change ALL the pages to change a single url. This is how we used to do things long time ago, and it sucked BIG TIME, and that's why people invented server-side includes and cgi and mod_php and all of that... it saves time, and your time costs much more than h…

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Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#105

Post by Wowfunhappy »

The one thing I really feel like I'm missing out on, in my own no-build-system Github Pages site, is an RSS feed. A couple of people have emailed me asking if there's a way to be notified if I make a new post, but I don't see how I can do it without bringing in an external service.

Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#106

Post by robertoandred »

henlo wrote: post #39

Plain HTML+CSS is really good nowadays. You can for example lazy load images with `loading="lazy"` attribute. You don't need JS anymore just to lazy load images. You can use plain CSS for simple interaction like opening and closing menu, toggling pricing plan, etc. If you're curious with what you can build with plain HTML+CSS, check out my side project[0]. It's a collection of free landing page templates in plain HTM…

CSS-only solutions for interactions are usually awful for accessibility.

Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#107

Post by kkoncevicius »

chubot wrote: post #74

I use Markdown and HTML, CSS, and Python (just stdlib, no packages) to generate static files. I think that will last just about the same length of time. http://www.oilshell.org/blog/ Markdown is a significant win, and CommonMark made it a lot better. CommonMark is a Useful, High-Quality Project http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/02/14.html Admittedly I need a Makefile, and Make is pretty impoverished for this use, and…

I use something very similar on my website, except with a few twists - MultiMarkdown (instead of Markdown) for HTML, Perl for piping MultiMarkdown produced HTMLs through some regex changes, and redo instead of Make for rebuilds.

If you are looking for Make replacement - I cannot sing enough praises for redo: https://github.com/apenwarr/redo

Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#108

Post by [deleted] »

Rauchg wrote: post #21

This is an inaccurate over-simplification. If you just use HTML and CSS, you can also have really bad Lighthouse scores. For example, vanilla ` ` will ship the same image to every device, regardless of viewport size. Vanilla ` ` doesn't enforce setting `width` and `height`, which makes your layouts shift. Slow-loading images and layout shifts are the very things that will downgrade the "100" score he's currently prou…

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Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#109

Post by josefresco »

411111111111111 wrote: post #71
ivanhoe wrote: post #66

Sure, it's super easy when your page doesn't have even a header and/or a footer. Try having a top-menu in your design, or some banners/ads, and then you need to change ALL the pages to change a single url. This is how we used to do things long time ago, and it sucked BIG TIME, and that's why people invented server-side includes and cgi and mod_php and all of that... it saves time, and your time costs much more than h…

To be fair, static site generators are a thing and are very much underused in cooperations. He could have the same scores/performance and still get the full advantages you mentioned. But yes, handcrafting html is pointless at some point, especially if you have to update the contents every so often

> To be fair, static site generators are a thing

There goes your super-lean stack and we're back to square-one.

Re: My stack is HTML+CSS

#110

Post by pedro1976 »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #105

The one thing I really feel like I'm missing out on, in my own no-build-system Github Pages site, is an RSS feed. A couple of people have emailed me asking if there's a way to be notified if I make a new post, but I don't see how I can do it without bringing in an external service.

Have you tried https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy ?
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