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Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by theandrewbailey »

poga wrote: post #2

I'm blogging with Raw HTML since the beginning of this year. The biggest missing piece is probably RSS support which makes me sad. I can write a script to generate that from the list of article but I'm not sure if there's better way.

If I turn off Javascript, your blog breaks in ways that shouldn't be possible if it really was HTML (specifically, links and images disappear[0]). You're not blogging in raw HTML, but markdown. Your homepage is the most 'raw HTML' page I can find on your blog, because it uses real HTML elements to display things, and doesn't even use JS or CSS.

[0] it's particularly bad on https://devpoga.org/cheap-complexity/

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by awanderingmind »

rerdavies wrote: post #79
inopinatus wrote: post #73

This is novice stuff. I write my blog by modifying the filesystem's binary structure by hand with a hex editor. There is no Javascript or CSS whatsoever and the document uses only elements, attributes, and behaviours that were both described in the original HTML v1.1 DTD and that have continued to appear in every intervening IETF, W3C, and WHATWG issuance since then. Many of the elements are therefore deprecated and…

Real programmers use octal not hex.

And only use computers they built themselves from transistors made from silicon they mined using hand-made, wooden tools... etc.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by mattstir »

dzek69 wrote: post #94

Is this a parody of something? "raw html" that does not work without JS (I mean literally, links are not links without JS), but on the other hand looks ugly even if 10 lines of CSS would make it look nice

Could you elaborate on "links are not links without JS"?

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by tannhaeuser »

To those taking issue with the "raw" HTML claim when the author actually writes markdown syntax and converts it to HTML: SGML, on which HTML is based and which is originally understood to supply the authoring features HTML itself is lacking, has the SHORTREF capability [1] which can map custom tokens into markup and thus implement a large portion of markdown in pure SGML, if still not "raw" HTML.

[1]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/sgmlrefman.html#short-references

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by immibis »

culi wrote: post #83

This is not a Raw HTML blog. You're sending markdown to the browser and then a bunch of javascript to convert that mark down into HTML...

Javascript loaded from Cloudflare! What's the chances Cloudflare (current age: 14.5 years) is still around in 20 years and still providing this Javascript (current age: 30 years) file (current age: beginning of Israel's current bombing of Gaza)?

And another one loaded from the website of the creator of that module! Last commit 2 years ago. Created 1 year before that. Will it continue to exist?

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by rssoconnor »

I literally blog with raw SGML. Each post comes with a handful per post ENTITYs for that post's common abbreviations and links. Unlike inopinatus's comment, I do keep up with "modern" standards, which is why my posts conform to the "ISO/IEC 15445:2000//DTD HyperText Markup Language//EN" doctype, the latest HTML standard approved by the ISO.

Blog content is assembled via various SGML entities includes into a prehtml file of "-//ISO-HTML User's Guide//DTD ISO-HTML Preparation//EN" doctype per ISO 15445:2000 recommendations[0]. This is all processed with osgmlnorm through a somewhat simple Makefile to generate the resulting HTML files.

[0] https://rogerprice.org/15445/UG.html#DOCPREP

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by AlienRobot »

inopinatus wrote: post #73

This is novice stuff. I write my blog by modifying the filesystem's binary structure by hand with a hex editor. There is no Javascript or CSS whatsoever and the document uses only elements, attributes, and behaviours that were both described in the original HTML v1.1 DTD and that have continued to appear in every intervening IETF, W3C, and WHATWG issuance since then. Many of the elements are therefore deprecated and…

I think you should just use Wordpress instead. It would be easier.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by AlienRobot »

rssoconnor wrote: post #116

I literally blog with raw SGML. Each post comes with a handful per post ENTITYs for that post's common abbreviations and links. Unlike inopinatus's comment, I do keep up with "modern" standards, which is why my posts conform to the "ISO/IEC 15445:2000//DTD HyperText Markup Language//EN" doctype, the latest HTML standard approved by the ISO. Blog content is assembled via various SGML entities includes into a prehtml f…

I don't know what kind of competition this is, but I'm waiting for someone to say they blog in XML with XSLT.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by layer8 »

AlienRobot wrote: post #118
rssoconnor wrote: post #116

I literally blog with raw SGML. Each post comes with a handful per post ENTITYs for that post's common abbreviations and links. Unlike inopinatus's comment, I do keep up with "modern" standards, which is why my posts conform to the "ISO/IEC 15445:2000//DTD HyperText Markup Language//EN" doctype, the latest HTML standard approved by the ISO. Blog content is assembled via various SGML entities includes into a prehtml f…

I don't know what kind of competition this is, but I'm waiting for someone to say they blog in XML with XSLT.

That’s less impressive than SGML.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by jasonkester »

AlienRobot wrote: post #118
rssoconnor wrote: post #116

I literally blog with raw SGML. Each post comes with a handful per post ENTITYs for that post's common abbreviations and links. Unlike inopinatus's comment, I do keep up with "modern" standards, which is why my posts conform to the "ISO/IEC 15445:2000//DTD HyperText Markup Language//EN" doctype, the latest HTML standard approved by the ISO. Blog content is assembled via various SGML entities includes into a prehtml f…

I don't know what kind of competition this is, but I'm waiting for someone to say they blog in XML with XSLT.

As requested:

http://www.blogabond.com/xsl/vistacular.xml

The upside is that the entire html page is content. I defy google to not figure out what to index here:

view-source:http://www.blogabond.com/xsl/vistacular.xml

The downside is everything else about the experience.

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