How to Build a Low-Tech Website

Re:How to Build a Low-Tech Website by JepZ on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:41AM (#18076406)

  <div id="battery" style="height: 95%;">
    <div id="bat_data">
      <a href="https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/weather/"><span id="sky"></span><span id="level">95%</span></a></div>
  </div>

Looks pretty much like the battery level and current weather conditions ;-)

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Re:How to Build a Low-Tech Website by EForEndeavour on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:53AM (#18076545)

Before starting to read the article, I tried clicking and dragging on that element and searched the page for "brightness" and "dim" before peeking at the source to realize it isn't a brightness control after all.

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Re:How to Build a Low-Tech Website by velcrovan on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:35PM (#18077679)

Well OK, this makes me wonder: if it truly is a static site, how are they injecting all this dynamic data? Or are they just faking it by re-generating the site periodically?

edit: nvm, just found the javascript that rejiggers the DOM based on data from https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/api/stats.json

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