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The ideal amount of JavaScript is zero.
I disagree. The gov.uk website completely eschews JavaScript at some usability cost, in particular form validation is delayed until way later than it would be if they added just a little JavaScript. It can be quite annoying.
I would imagine this was mostly driven by accessibility requirements more so than some ideological rigidity.
proceeding with all the steps that make it hard...
> exercise in pointless manual labor
This is exactly correct! Let the tools do their job and insert all the spans/tags/etc. that a browser expects, devote your energy to the content!
I don't understand your hangup about using JavaScript to accomplish tasks that JavaScript is extremely well-suited to do. The idea that you are somehow imposing a burden on your visitors is an imaginary constraint which is actively consuming the finite minutes you have on the planet. This is a pyrrhic victory. I am not advocating using SPAs of any kind, especially in a blog context. However, if there is a library whi…
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Build times can be annoying. I have a bicycle shop's website in Hugo, full generation takes about a few dozen seconds, upload using rsync easily a minute because of many nested directories with images. I ended up writing a script to only upload changed html and new images unless needed.
You know there was a time when we had to wait dozens of seconds for the modem to finish its handshake before you could do anything.
60s grandgeezer here. try waiting a week or two, to find out that your punched card batch job didn't even compile, let alone run, because of a single character typo you made. back to square zero.
kids these days ...
I don't understand your hangup about using JavaScript to accomplish tasks that JavaScript is extremely well-suited to do. The idea that you are somehow imposing a burden on your visitors is an imaginary constraint which is actively consuming the finite minutes you have on the planet. This is a pyrrhic victory. I am not advocating using SPAs of any kind, especially in a blog context. However, if there is a library whi…
The ideal amount of JavaScript is zero.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. The gov.uk website completely eschews JavaScript at some usability cost, in particular form validation is delayed until way later than it would be if they added just a little JavaScript. It can be quite annoying.
> The gov.uk website completely eschews JavaScript at some usability cost I would imagine this was mostly driven by accessibility requirements more so than some ideological rigidity.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. The gov.uk website completely eschews JavaScript at some usability cost, in particular form validation is delayed until way later than it would be if they added just a little JavaScript. It can be quite annoying.
> The gov.uk website completely eschews JavaScript at some usability cost I would imagine this was mostly driven by accessibility requirements more so than some ideological rigidity.
> To write a new article, I... [c]opy-paste an older article to get the correct headers and navbar.
This is kind of hilarious. Any parts that you copy-paste from your previous projects into your new one are almost by definition too hard to do from scratch every time. You don't normally copy-paste e.g. single words or phrases like "do from scratch" into your writing because simply writing them is quicker and less fiddly than copy-pasting them from somewhere else, right? Yet I've worked with a dyslexic programmer once, and he copy-pasted tons of single words and phrases around from his earlier messages when chatting, and code snippets when coding — because for him, it was indeed easier than writing it correctly from scratch.
So back to main original point: handwriting HTML may not be that hard, but it's still hard enough for almost anyone to make them evade it whenever they can.