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I don't have the expertise to write this, unfortunately.
Can ChatGPT et al make good beautiful HTML/CSS pages? Or take an existing one and actually beautify it?
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> it gives you the power to create experiences and share them almost effortlessly That's exactly where the hate comes from: I don't want you, the web designer, to have the power to create experiences, because you (collectively) use that power to force experiences on me that I don't want to have.
I didn't express myself as "the web designer" nor I implied that I wished to share experiences with you. What I meant is that I can share experiences to my friends via the browser, which act as a kind of a simple prototyping platform. I want the power to create experiences for some people I know, in a niche setting, without intentionally inviting anyone else.
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The other conclusion I've come to is that web designers way overcomplicate stuff. So I don't want to do a Facebook page. What are my relatively low-cost options? Well, I can have a really basic HTML site but that's a little late-90s. OK, a Wordpress site then. Now I'm dealing with introductory rates that shoot up after a year unless I just use a standard VPS and now I'm having to do a lot of stuff myself. And, as far…
> The other conclusion I've come to is that web designers way overcomplicate stuff. I mean, there's a floor right? The floor being that you need a server that can respond to HTTP requests, yours or otherwise; you need said server accessible from an address to which you can map a DNS record to; and you need HTML files that can be served in response to that request. Few of these are free, but many can be had for very c…
But, if I'm going to be on Blogger anyway for blogging, my best bet is probably to find a reasonable way to also make it my home page destination. Or maybe not. We'll see. I'm just not sure I'm especially interested in spending a lot of time on tech that isn't my ultimate objective.
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I didn't express myself as "the web designer" nor I implied that I wished to share experiences with you. What I meant is that I can share experiences to my friends via the browser, which act as a kind of a simple prototyping platform. I want the power to create experiences for some people I know, in a niche setting, without intentionally inviting anyone else.
Yeah, the problem is everyone and their mother are "creating experiences" instead of giving me the info I'm actually looking for...
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> I notice a lot of hate toward JS, but honestly when I first stumbled upon it I felt like a dream came true; it gives you the power to create experiences and share them almost effortlessly The complaints about JS are almost never about the concept of a programming language that runs in your browser, and the upside you describe seems to apply to any language that runs in your browser.
The only languages browsers should understand are markup languages, scripting and programming: no, none of that. Documents, not programs.
I love this. I've seen a lot of similar "use HTML as HTML" type things recently (probably a lot coming from the HATEOAS crowd). I'm not a web developer, and I really don't understand how we've ended up in this state where: - web starts as a means to share documents, HTML is built around that - eventually people want to build general applications (a la google docs) so they build tools that let you build non-document t…
Has anyone proposed CommonMark over HTTP? Like, just shove markdown in a GET response with Content-Type: text/markdown And let the client decide how to render it. It'd be like Gopher, but modern.
Removed in 2018. I don't totally disagree with the reasoning, but when the web kills amazing flexibility points for lack of heavy adoption it makes me sad. There's so many good ideas that should be left in, even though society isn't actually so bloody awesome as it should be. https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform/c/jeTDLz38_...
Also, scoffing at 0.2% of users of a web browser is multiple orders of magnitude away from where the line should be; these people are a fucking joke & shame the fuck on them, losers. Jonathan Kingston, what the heck dude? What the frelling heck?
Also no other browsers implemented it! Adoption needed help! Not to be murdered.
Tl;Dr, adding new content types used to be easy & simple & you could register a site as a content handler but they always kept the feature locked down then killed it without ever letting people go for it at all. Gatekept.
Sure, apple.com's source might not be as beautiful as their products but potato.cheap immediately turns around and says it's not apples fault, and trashes the web and says it needs sto be replaces by something else.
It just seems to be like the industrial world isn't going to improve without being lead there, but that there's so much leeway for the better awesome web to evince itself. The manifest possibilities are what so many people see as a bad and awful thing, but I think taste & discernment & internal structure are incredibly complicated & any kind of broad scale human hyper-engine of note is going to take more than a decade of effort for us to really suss out where to go & what looks & feels right. There isn't going to be the perfect system created out of nothing that makes everything great; it's power flexibility and possibility that we refine &harness onward to get to exceptional, and the web has ongoingly been an amazing host to that dialog in ways nothing else has been or from what I can see could be.
I'm so tired of those who most strongly clearly advocate for better online systems being so retrograde. I miss the hope & buoyancy of those excited for stuff! Web Components and webrtc and QUIC and moq, our new awesome css flexbox and grid and layers, css variables. I'm still as thirsty and in love & still a believer that we can keep honing new & great. To shock industry into not sucking we just need to lead towards better, towards protocols & interoperation & elegance personally. The virtue will come out, and will be aped, as we develop, if we dare be better.