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
#312Width 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…
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#313Now this is the real internet. Real people writing about things they're interested in, and not with the intention of turning it into a content farm. Of course at 7 years old we cannot expect a deep, fleshed out site like in the Geocities golden age, but I wish older kids and adults would continue this practice of authoring their own pages, and manually linking them together. CMSes are incredibly limiting by design, e…
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#314More soul than 98% of the current internet out there
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#317Exactly 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 agree with you, but for shits and giggles, to modify this to be evangelist compliant, you could write this instead: Which isn't much more complicated, and makes it clearer what's going on. I wonder if there is a transpiler like Elm that could take a single file written in a simplified language and gave you an HTML5 compliant webpage? You could argue that all the XML-but-not-actually-XML crap in HTML (angle brackets…
Hard disagree on both points.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#318Width 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
#319Exactly 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 agree with you, but for shits and giggles, to modify this to be evangelist compliant, you could write this instead: Which isn't much more complicated, and makes it clearer what's going on. I wonder if there is a transpiler like Elm that could take a single file written in a simplified language and gave you an HTML5 compliant webpage? You could argue that all the XML-but-not-actually-XML crap in HTML (angle brackets…
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#320https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-naya-lol/tkn3le4d53