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Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by rchaud »

flas9sd wrote: post #68
lmm wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I write my blog in markdown and serve it to the browser as such, with a one-liner javascript include to render it in browsers that support that. I like that the "canonical" post source is preserved and served (you can read it with telnet, in a pinch).

had a look and I like it. More "raw markdown" (what the OP uses too) instead of HTML in web publishing is a good thing - basically because xml syntax is not how humans want to write. This, combined with git forges pages concept or tilde user accounts makes for nice corners in the webs.

Sure, but writing in Markdown isn't how humans write either.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by rchaud »

mattstir wrote: post #113
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"?

If you turn Javascript off, the Markdown-formatted text will not display as a clickable link, but like "[hugo](https://gohugo.io/)". You would need to copy and paste the link into a browser address bar to navigate there instead of just clicking the link.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by klysm »

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…

You use a file system? I manually flip bits in my magnetic core memory

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by lmm »

rchaud wrote: post #131
flas9sd wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

had a look and I like it. More "raw markdown" (what the OP uses too) instead of HTML in web publishing is a good thing - basically because xml syntax is not how humans want to write. This, combined with git forges pages concept or tilde user accounts makes for nice corners in the webs.

Sure, but writing in Markdown isn't how humans write either.

Markdown is the least bad way for humans to write, IME. It definitely beats handwriting, it definitely beats every other markup/formatting language, and subjectively I find it nicer than MS Word style "WYSIWYG" formatting although that part is maybe more arguable.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

#136

Post by ayaros »

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…

You're doing God's work.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by reassess_blind »

Why are there so many of these exact kind of posts lately? I swear I’ve seen 10 posts in the last month with some variation on “I use less technology to do X than the next guy”. It might be noteworthy if the author had an interesting problem to tackle, previously used a convoluted stack to accomplish it but then stripped it down to basics - but no, this is just “I wrote HTML to make a website”. I’d rather read “I used a hammer to hit a nail”.
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