Heck yeah this is exactly how I started when I was 6. HTML books at the library and websites exactly like this.
Love this OP, thank you for sharing.
My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#32Love the 90s look. Well done!
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#33Width and height must be specified without units (although looks like browsers accept it, probably by ignoring the unit). IMG tags are self-closing, so you can omit The dog picture has wrong aspect ratio. The dog is squeezed! It should be 620 × 349 or, if 500 width or 400 height is needed, there's a good mathematical task to calculate the size of the other side. No need for / in HTML. unicorn.html unicorncopy.html Pa…
Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#34More correct html than a senior react dev.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#35Wow, great stuff. Tell her she did a fantastic job! --- By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word". The median developer even seems to have a very shallow understanding of how a computer actually works. And why would they, if they can just glue some Lambdas together to earn a buck? --- Praise those that look a bit deeper and really…
Abstractions will start coming and they don't stop coming.
People in the late 90s/early 2000s probably complained about people like me who learned about HTML but only had a shallow understanding of how laying out a GUI and text rendering works. Which why would we, when we could just glue some HTML together to make a Chrono Trigger fan site?
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#36Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.
Totally agree with you. Not a front end dev myself, and I have multiple variations of "how do i center a div" in my search history, haha. With varying degrees of angry expletives added to the query.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#37Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.
I was really happy this still works. It's how I learned.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#38Wow, great stuff. Tell her she did a fantastic job! --- By necessity, kids these days don't even need to learn what a file is. Videos are "on youtube". Documents are stored "in ms word". The median developer even seems to have a very shallow understanding of how a computer actually works. And why would they, if they can just glue some Lambdas together to earn a buck? --- Praise those that look a bit deeper and really…
Files are an abstraction that was very useful in the last several decades, but that just isn't as relevant in the current world. Those videos and documents you mentioned are likely managed via object storage in a distributed database, itself possibly using block storage directly, with no actual "file" in an old-school filesystem anywhere in sight. I still personally cling to files personally, but I have no real reaso…
Until you try creating one of those videos, and now you need .movs and .mp3s and .pngs and a place to store the render output.
Files have a way to go yet.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#39Width and height must be specified without units (although looks like browsers accept it, probably by ignoring the unit). IMG tags are self-closing, so you can omit The dog picture has wrong aspect ratio. The dog is squeezed! It should be 620 × 349 or, if 500 width or 400 height is needed, there's a good mathematical task to calculate the size of the other side. No need for / in HTML. unicorn.html unicorncopy.html Pa…
And still with all of that it completely serves its purpose
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#40Is it her true name?
I've been trying to get mine to use an alias but so far is one per service and loses a bit of magic.