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Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by delta_p_delta_x »

catskull wrote: post #45
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #27

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...

Thank you, I believe I have fixed it. TIL variable fonts on web are not great! AFAIK they don't distribute the regular/bold/italic/bold italic 4 font mix?

It looks like they do! Maybe there's some option to select it. I haven't bought it yet, so I can't test it...

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by tjpnz »

syncbehind wrote: post #321
tjpnz wrote: post #273

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That would require accepting that the complexity merchants sold them a lie.

> complexity merchants I have never heard of this term before. But I do think it is quite apt. Is this an established concept (can I read more about it somewhere)? Or did you come up with it on the fly?

Someone else coined the term and there was a HN post. I cannot find it though.

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by cratermoon »

lmm wrote: post #413
cratermoon wrote: post #402

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Perhaps the tags have not been de facto treated semantically by existing practices. There’s a great deal wrong with the tag soup pervading the web. Current convention doesn’t mean they can’t have semantics.

Potentially they could have semantics in the future, but right now they don't. If you make a user agent that relies on them having those semantics, that user agent will misinterpret a lot of web pages.

I can create CSS to style the two tags accordingly, and in within my own work I can make them mean different things to the tools I use to create and manage html.

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by lmm »

cratermoon wrote: post #424
lmm wrote: post #413

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Potentially they could have semantics in the future, but right now they don't. If you make a user agent that relies on them having those semantics, that user agent will misinterpret a lot of web pages.

I can create CSS to style the two tags accordingly, and in within my own work I can make them mean different things to the tools I use to create and manage html.

Sure. But you could always do that for any tags, regardless of - even in opposition to - their official semantics.

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by guggle »

infogulch wrote: post #296
guggle wrote: post #124

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This… {{range .Query `SELECT id,name FROM contacts`}} {{.name}} {{end}} …reminds me of what we used to do in php3 days. That was convenient, performant and… unmaintainable. Am I missing something ?

Who knows if it will be maintainable or not. Can you articulate why the php3 projects became unmaintainable?

I almost have ptsd from these dark days, I won’t go into details ;-) but there’s plenty of literature about separation of concerns. Having the templates doing the data access takes me back 20 years ago, but I can see why this idea comes back in a web component era.

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Post by bingemaker »

Alifatisk wrote: post #225
bingemaker wrote: post #38

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Exporting to web using Flutter is a nightmare I believe. When I checked last time, rendering happens on a canvas. There is no markup at all

> rendering happens on a canvas flutter run --web-renderer=html

Glad to know that this exists!

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by abwizz »

circuit10 wrote: post #184
abwizz wrote: post #155

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> They know when a sequence of paragraphs constitutes a "list", without it having to be explicitly marked as such, etc. that's the thing; they don't know - they guess

Humans do the same, it’s usually obvious from the context

i guess there is something to be said in favor of humans and computers meeting half way

Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by [deleted] »

satvikpendem wrote: post #42
bingemaker wrote: post #38

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Exporting to web using Flutter is a nightmare I believe. When I checked last time, rendering happens on a canvas. There is no markup at all

I use Flutter for some web apps, it works fine. It's good for web apps, not web sites, and compared to other desktop or mobile apps, there is literally no difference between rendering on a canvas to rendering on Qt or SwiftUI. People, in my experience, just get up in arms about the web that does not happen with other technologies.

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Re: I'm betting on HTML

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Post by mmwako »

I would really really like to see a full-blown retro-looking social network (say, a Twitter/X clone), that works solely with pure HTML. It would be really amazing.
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