To me the idea of a small web is a great one. But then for some reason everyone equates small with "static builder" and before you know it you're into a hellscape of complexity with static site builders, SPAs and other madness. What happened to "I'll edit this .html file and FTP it up, with maybe a light sprinkling of CSS and js for any interactive elements"? Why did devs get obsessed with a deeply complex jamstack t…
Tiny Awards for Small Websites
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Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites
#32Thanks for the feature. We made the website with https://build.mmm.page/ . It is the most fun wysiwyg builder I have used. Highly recommend it, bugs included.
Why? It’s text with some images. Even Word could do this better. Frontpage would be a massive improvement.
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#34Is it worth it to submit projects like this?
Otherwise I think all awards will automatically go to Nicky Case (ncase.me).
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#35Tiny Awards for Small Websites is awarded the prestigious and highly coveted "Boatload of Unecessary Javascript Blocking Content Award" by me.
It says nothing about page size, but 80% of the comments are pointless bickering about JavaScript by grumpy HN readers that prefer their web experience to be permanently stuck in 2005.
I will never understand how do you never get bored of fighting windmills.
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#36Is this some kind of joke? This "tiny" web page loads content from 8 other sites. The html of the page is 122k big. Add to that more than a megabyte of useless javascript frameworks.
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#37Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites
#38Tiny Awards for Small Websites is awarded the prestigious and highly coveted "Boatload of Unecessary Javascript Blocking Content Award" by me.
Tiny in scope , not tiny in size. It says nothing about page size, but 80% of the comments are pointless bickering about JavaScript by grumpy HN readers that prefer their web experience to be permanently stuck in 2005. I will never understand how do you never get bored of fighting windmills.
How do you not get bored of fighting windmills?
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#39Re: Tiny Awards for Small Websites
#40To me the idea of a small web is a great one. But then for some reason everyone equates small with "static builder" and before you know it you're into a hellscape of complexity with static site builders, SPAs and other madness. What happened to "I'll edit this .html file and FTP it up, with maybe a light sprinkling of CSS and js for any interactive elements"? Why did devs get obsessed with a deeply complex jamstack t…
When all you have are frameworks, everything looks like JavaScript.