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Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by anyfactor »

billforsternz wrote: post #11
anyfactor wrote: post #8

Tangent. > I wrote this post and then GPT-4 fixed my grammer and spelling I wrote an Autohotkey + Go script that I constantly use for fixing grammar using ChatGPT's API. You can select the text, press F8, wait a bit, and your input will be replaced by correctly grammatical text. The only catch is that it "fixes" the tone and makes it professional, which is kinda annoying. Feel free to try it out: https://github.com/a…

The misspelling of grammer instead of grammar is a little ironic in this context. Sorry:-)

Grammer, should of, datbase, mangement, timzone, accept/except, except/expect ..... We should accept these as part of normal written conversations and try to understand the context. With the amount of AI-generated content that is being produced, misspellings should be celebrated!

But who am I to say that? I am literally converting my rants on the internet into professional arguments and using sophisticated synonyms like the architect from the Matrix. "Ergo", I am part of the problem.

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by jamamp »

klardotsh wrote: post #9

I had heard of almost none of these HTML elements, and that's such a shame, because they could seriously help put the "we need JavaScript for every gosh darn thing" ecosystem to an end (or at least return JS to what it was originally meant to be: a way to add some flair, some interactivity, some whatever, but not necessarily a replacement for all of your markup and a full-DOM manager). I'm starting to think my dream…

You might like this: http://youmightnotneedjs.com/

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by simonw »

billforsternz wrote: post #11
anyfactor wrote: post #8

Tangent. > I wrote this post and then GPT-4 fixed my grammer and spelling I wrote an Autohotkey + Go script that I constantly use for fixing grammar using ChatGPT's API. You can select the text, press F8, wait a bit, and your input will be replaced by correctly grammatical text. The only catch is that it "fixes" the tone and makes it professional, which is kinda annoying. Feel free to try it out: https://github.com/a…

The misspelling of grammer instead of grammar is a little ironic in this context. Sorry:-)

That was deliberate - if you view the source:

    ... then GPT-4 fixed my grammer and spelling

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by zmmmmm »

Oh man, there's a element?!

There are probably occasions where that is the whole reason I pulled a JS framework in, since default alert boxes are horrible and anything better is a heap of work to do in a nice looking yet portable way.

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by p-e-w »

HTML is the solution to walled-garden lock-in? What? Those walled gardens already use HTML, including some of the semantic elements mentioned (plus ARIA semantic attributes, which are much more sophisticated).

> ChatGPT-like interfaces are likely the future of human data access.

And the whole point of artificial intelligence systems is that they don't require specialized "machine-readable" annotations in order to process input. ChatGPT (and its future offspring) can navigate regular websites the same way humans do. They don't need us to hold their hand. They know when a sequence of paragraphs constitutes a "list", without it having to be explicitly marked as such, etc.

What the author appears to be describing is simply an API mediated through HTML semantic elements. But if you have an API, you don't need a Large Language Model for automatic data access – a good old Python script using Beautiful Soup will do just fine. And it has the added benefit that it runs entirely locally.

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by delta_p_delta_x »

Hey OP, I notice you're using Berkeley Mono, which is beautiful. But your website's CSS appears to be applying boldface on an already boldface font in the headers (despite the typeface name claiming to be 'Regular', it is actually bold; see the datasheet[1]), which is causing bad hinting. Consider changing your typeface file!

[1]: https://cdn.berkeleygraphics.com/static/typefaces/berkeley-m...

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by pcthrowaway »

nathansherburn wrote: post #17
leetrout wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am lost in CSS these days since letting my skills atrophy over the past ~decade

You'll be fine. If anything CSS is the one thing that's gotten easier in web dev. It might take some time but you'll be able to grok it for sure if you've dealt with old school CSS.

ehh... more organized / better? Sure.

Easier? Well, even if you don't have to deal with legacy styling (which had moments of insanity, like floats, and other things which were fairly reasonable, like tables, br, b, i), there is so much new CSS to replace the old: variables, transforms, complex animations, using borders to make arrows and other visual content, in flow vs out of flow, container queries, view transitions api, px, pt, em, rem, vh, vw, query units, initial vs inherit, vs unset vs revert, new color formats, a million new properties for the complexity of interactivity with the gamut of user agent form factors

You know what? I'm going to stop because the list goes on and I don't even think I touched on 1% of the "new" CSS

These days I mostly just use tailwind. It gives me a sane, easy to work with api, and the updates are a more manageable trickle than a deluge

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