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Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files

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Post by movedx » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 2:55 AM UTC

ymolodtsov wrote: post #306

movedx wrote: post #79

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> The only people I've ever heard talk about the static html version are a few HNers. I'd wager 99% of people don't care, don't mind their email client's first load being slow (they just keep it open in a tab anyways), and don't even know about the static html version. Are you claiming that because people are ignorant of an option that is clearly better for them, the option is redundant? So if people don't care about…

Exactly zero everyday people switch to HTML-version. I’ve never seen anyone doing it in the wild. This sub-thread is just peak Hacker News.

> I’ve never seen anyone doing it in the wild.

You watch people as they use Gmail? You actively ask them?

I guess if YOU haven't seen anyone do it, no one must be doing it.

Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files

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Post by p_l » Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 12:52 AM UTC

dwild wrote: post #278

jonny383 wrote: post #167

There's nothing wrong with static HTML/CSS/JS. There's also nothing wrong with a rich SPA. And again, there's nothing wrong with using some kind of dynamic server-side HTML/CSS/JS presentation (like WordPress). Where there is a problem is the culture of software engineering, and the tendency to select the newest technology stack of the day for inappropriate applications. I think any seasoned software engineer has acq…

>Seasoned engineer: Let's use any well-tested CMS such as WordPress and install a caching front-end. I thought that was your junior response... you update it once a month, seems like WordPress is seriously overengineered for something managed internally. Static website + a 1h ticket once a month seems much better. You'll save in performance, security, and it over a few years, it would take you less work time than doi…

then you find out that you need to run the site HA for reasons, and you learn just how much of a shitshow it is with WordPress.

Sincerely, someone with way too many Wordpress sites.

Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files

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Post by RandomGuyDTB » Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 8:49 PM UTC

RandomGuyDTB wrote: post #303

krapp wrote: post #229

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Browsers never stopped having that functionality. It's still entirely possible to load custom user styles into a webpage.

If I recall, Netscape or one of the other early browsers used to have an option to change the default font/color of text and the background in its settings. Nowadays you have to use an extension to do so.

I finally found an option in Firefox to change things around, but it still only changes the font and not actual foreground/background colors.