Re:Is the web getting slower?
by the_gastropod on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:28AM
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> If you want anything more than a static site, you‘ll need JavaScript. No way around it.
I’ve been noticing this kind of rebranding of what static means a lot. It seems to create lots of confusion (you can see it in this thread already).
Traditionally, “static” websites were websites without a server-side programming language backing them—sites whose content was unchanged by any users. Javascript, CSS, and HTML are the tools used to build static websites.
Today, some developers seem to use static to mean Javascriptless.
The term fits both situations pretty well, so I get why it happened. I don’t know if there’s a better less-ambiguous term used for either of these things now?! Non-database-backed?! Nonjavascript’d?
Re:Is the web getting slower?
by mrami on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:25AM
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The term for JS enabled pages used to be DHTML back in the day. You'd be talking about a static-server DHTML site. Or something like that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
I’ve been noticing this kind of rebranding of what static means a lot. It seems to create lots of confusion (you can see it in this thread already).
Traditionally, “static” websites were websites without a server-side programming language backing them—sites whose content was unchanged by any users. Javascript, CSS, and HTML are the tools used to build static websites.
Today, some developers seem to use static to mean Javascriptless.
The term fits both situations pretty well, so I get why it happened. I don’t know if there’s a better less-ambiguous term used for either of these things now?! Non-database-backed?! Nonjavascript’d?