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Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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Re: Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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Post by skybrian »

What do people like for form validation?

In this article he recommends the “validation-enhancer” library:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/validation-enhancer

I’ve also seen one called “formisch” that the author of valibot is working on:

https://github.com/open-circle/formisch

They’re both pretty new. Has anyone tried them?

Re: Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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Post by danielrhodes »

I've tried this before and I think this constraint is something that has to be kept top of mind for a designer not just the engineer. Most designs these days assume a single page app and there are interaction patterns that make plain HTML not suitable. But if you incorporate this in from the start and stick with it, there's no reason you can't do this.

Re: Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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Post by dylan604 »

jp_sc wrote: post #126
nonethewiser wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

explain?

"Chai" means "tea", so "Chai Tea" is "Tea Tea". "ATM" means "Automatic Teller Machine", so "ATM Machine" is "Automatic Teller Machine Machine". Both are mentioned in the animated movie "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse".

Except places are now offering Chai Latte Coffee so if you don't specifically order Chai Tea Latte, you could get some thing totally different than expected. I learned this the hard way.

Re: Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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Post by genewitch »

aidanbeck wrote: post #94

I was going to comment on the Terence Eden excerpt quoted by the author about the woman researching housing benefits on an old PSP browser, when I noticed that you (the OP) are Terence himself. It's strikingly powerful, and a reminder of the duty we have in building our infrastructure. > Of course, your javascript-based analytics package doesn’t see the users you are bouncing because of javascript failures. It is fri…

just use firefox with an adblocker like adnauseam and a fairly decent chunk of the internet stops working, including chase.com and several other massive corp sites.

I can't imagine trying to use links/lynx or a browser with less market share than FF that isn't based on chromium.

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Post by inigyou »

faangguyindia wrote: post #50

Most of my apps are now simply HTMX + Go + SQLite. I've found it's enough for most projects. One of my sites is image heavy and serves 10 TB of traffic per month. For this, I use the following setup: 1. S3 (I wanted reliable data storage) 2. In front of it, I have Cloudflare (with Tiered Cache enabled, which makes POPs prefer pulling from Cloudflare rather than the origin). I've set rules to cache everything on both…

10TB is nothing these days. All Hetzner virtual servers in Europe have 20TB/month traffic included (excess less than $2/TB) and all their dedicated servers have unlimited fair use (which is probably about 200TB/month averaged over many months).

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Post by pphysch »

thesuitonym wrote: post #136
jp_sc wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Chai" means "tea", so "Chai Tea" is "Tea Tea". "ATM" means "Automatic Teller Machine", so "ATM Machine" is "Automatic Teller Machine Machine". Both are mentioned in the animated movie "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse".

Actually, in English, Chai does not mean tea, it means a specific flavor of tea. If you don't believe me, try ordering some Earl Grey Chai, see what happens.

Sure, but "chai tea" is still redundant. I have never used that term and ordered chai in many places without confusion.

Re: Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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Post by inigyou »

paytonjjones wrote: post #88
creesch wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder why there isn't a mobile OS that simply lets you build apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and gives you reliable storage without all this effort. There is! You just have to time travel all the way back to 2009 when webOS was launched by Palm. Time travel is the easy part, you then also need to somehow prevent Palms demise and webOS fading into obscurity as a smartphone OS. If 2009 is too far back you can…

Maybe I'm missing something but aren't PWAs pretty dead-simple on both iOS and Android? Maybe it's the "reliable storage" part that's the gap?

I thought I read that one or both of them removed or heavily restricted PWA support to funnel more apps to their 30%-taking app store.

Re: Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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Post by pmontra »

iamacyborg wrote: post #130
jp_sc wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Chai" means "tea", so "Chai Tea" is "Tea Tea". "ATM" means "Automatic Teller Machine", so "ATM Machine" is "Automatic Teller Machine Machine". Both are mentioned in the animated movie "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse".

PIN number

Town names too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montebello_della_Battaglia

Not in the Wikipedia page (but check the Italian version): it started as "Mons Belli" (Mount of the Battle) because of a battle fought by the Romans a few years before the Hannibal campaign. Then the original meaning was lost and it gained another "of battle" in the 1800s. Mount of the Battle of the Battle. Hopefully there won't be another one to add.

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