HTML is all you need to make a website

Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by pphysch on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:14PM (#33644084)

There's clearly at least two camps of HTML advocates:

a) Conservatives: "HTML is just fine as it is"

b) Progressives: "HTML is a great idea but needs a little more work to be a great implementation"

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by giantrobot on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:44PM (#33646244)

There's a problematic "c" option whose domain could be served entirely with HTML and CSS but insist that some multi-megabyte JavaScript monstrosity is the only possible solution. So they weigh down every news article, blog post, and effectively static document with said JavaScript.

It's not a little more work, it's reimplementing things browsers and servers already do with JavaScript replacements. They deliver a naked script tag and then do everything in heavy JavaScript.

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by deafpolygon on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:46AM (#33651593)

The majority of these bulky javascript code is used to track you.

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by giantrobot on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:33PM (#33658286)

Tracking JavaScript is entirely separate from the framework-to-show-text bullshit design of many pages. They're bad before all the tracking gets loaded. The tracking makes them worse.

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