Poor Man's Web

Post by cxr » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 12:23 AM UTC

factormeta wrote: post #78

mattlondon wrote: post #45

I think Gemini has missed a trick being being deliberately too simple - e.g. no inline images, no tables, no forms, no basic formatting etc. I know these were deliberately left out for "simplicity" reasons, but then they have a fairly unsimple mechanism for user login/auth that totally undermines their claim for making clients little more than slightly-augmented-terminals, which for me is a smoking gun for these thin…

wouldn't it just be better to start a new html5 without JS trend? It can the defector standard for document based web! A lot of modern CSS options to build nav menus now days[1]: Form submit etc to send network traffics are all available, JS is only needed when you wanna do something cute like network call (AJAX) or change dom elements without refreshing the page. And come up with kluge such as allowing js to change…

You'd have to ditch a bunch of CSS, too. JS always gets mentioned, but it's hardly the biggest problem I tend to have when landing on random pages. I'd guess 60+% of the time it's one of:

1. very poor choice of text size and/or color

2. imposing stupid width/min-width

3. sticky headers

Post by aleph_minus_one » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:16 AM UTC

cxr wrote: post #80

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The question I’ve been wondering lately is, “why don’t most people I meet have personal websites?” The answer from my experience is simple: because most people that I meet are not programmers (at least not in a strict sense), and don't know many programmers. On the other hand: most programmers and many STEM degree holders that I meet do have their own websites.

... that they never update ... because they're all posting on social media platforms big and small, just like everyone else.

This does not fit my observations, in particular with respect to the aspect "they're all posting on social media platforms big and small, just like everyone else".

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