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Re: Just use HTML

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Post by pmdulaney » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

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Re: Just use HTML

#32

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

Retr0id wrote: post #22

xnorswap wrote: post #6

Somehow this site is both plain HTML yet also blocks the Firefox reader button, rendering it unreadable. ( Edit: Browsing to https://justfuckingusehtml.com/index.html shows the reader button, I guess Firefox has a really dumb heuristic for when it shows. )

I was having trouble getting reader mode to "detect" my blog posts a while back, I was never able to find documentation on how it decides to show the button or not.

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Re: Just use HTML

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Post by miek » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

Philpax wrote: post #10

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #4

> Hey, dipshit! I couldn’t care less but… good luck convincing people with this attitude.

This is inherited from the websites [0][1][2][3] it was inspired by. [0]: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ [1]: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ [2]: https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/ [3]: https://thebestmotherfucking.website/

and all of this reminds me of the ancient maddox.xmission.com , which.. wow he was still updating in the 2020s

Re: Just use HTML

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Post by rad_gruchalski » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

throwaway150 wrote: post #26

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have to explain your joke, it didn’t work.

I'm not sure that your inability to recognize satire is something worth broadcasting here. It's not something to be proud of.

We certainly have a different sense of humour. For some waving a dick in public is called humour. Thanks for a compliment.

Re: Just use HTML

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Post by bdcravens » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

baal80spam wrote: post #21

I loved web 1.0, but try to sell it to a customer.

Unfortunately many sites are little more than web 1.0 inflated with a consulting boondoggle.

Re: Just use HTML

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #34

throwaway150 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure that your inability to recognize satire is something worth broadcasting here. It's not something to be proud of.

We certainly have a different sense of humour. For some waving a dick in public is called humour. Thanks for a compliment.

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Re: Just use HTML

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Post by roschdal » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:18 PM UTC

Yes. Just use HTML.

Re: Just use HTML

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Post by obsolete_wagie » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:18 PM UTC

"AI's out here, a gift from the heavens (or at least from Sam Altman's nerd fortress) ready to write your shitty little to-do app in five seconds flat. It can churn out pixel-perfect HTML, debug your fuck-ups, and probably even wipe your ass if you ask nicely. But no, you're still humping your frameworks like they're the last lifeboat on the Titanic."

Personal opinion is that AI will reduce the need for higher abstraction software libraries. ORMs for instance could go away. We will see wildly different software paradigms as the need for human understanding drops

Re: Just use HTML

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Post by squidbeak » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:18 PM UTC

ninetyninenine wrote: post #18

I wish html would just look good from the get go.

"HTML needs to require bigger CSS resets."

Re: Just use HTML

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Post by pfg_ » Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

reconnecting wrote: post #19

We made tirreno website [1] with only HTML 4.01 and 1 transparent pixel, no CSS or JS. Works well on any device. Easy to update. Highly recommended. [1] https://www.tirreno.com/

It's super zoomed out on my phone, it doesn't have a mobile viewport. And if you do want to read text, you have to zoom in more than the width of the full page so you have to constantly scroll left and right.