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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by WillPontificate on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:42AM (#21145851)
I favor brutalism. A 1998 style design completely contained in inline code in the header. Using base fonts and features that are supported by all browsers.

It has a unique capability: it loads quickly.

Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by Xelbair on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:36AM (#21146240)
Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by WillPontificate on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:02AM (#21147023)
I love it. The simplicity of Bill Gate's resume.

"I build the biggest software company of its time"

<Drops the mike.>

I mean seriously, what more do you need? A list of coding languages that includes both Java and Javascript?

Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by onemoresoop on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:23PM (#21148747)
Haha, yes, but thats just a static page not a website.
Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by ahartmetz on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:19AM (#21155518)
Everybody knows that real websites are generated in the browser using JavaScript, right? Right???