HTML is all you need to make a website

Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by vehemenz on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:50PM (#33644606)

This type of article pops up every year, but the argument always presents a false dichotomy.

Yes, most things don't need to be SPAs or implement cutting-edge CSS features. That doesn't mean you have to build your website in pure HTML.

PHP is incredibly easy to learn and provides immediate benefits without negatively influencing your page's performance.

For CSS, there are many prebuilt stylesheets out there that are easy to implement.

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by sgarland on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:49PM (#33649942)

> PHP is incredibly easy to learn and provides immediate benefits

Like learning the joys of debugging missing semicolons.

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by rekabis on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:38AM (#33656249)

> Like learning the joys of debugging missing semicolons.

Any modern IDE built within the last 20 years would not only highlight where a semicolon was missing, but would also be able to tell the difference between a semicolon and a Greek question mark.

Intellisense is a really nifty feature.

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by vehemenz on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:27PM (#33658173)

HTML has its own syntax, including closing tags and quotes around attribute values. Since HTML is the benchmark here, are you suggesting semicolons at the end of statements are harder than either of these?

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by Phrodo_00 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:27PM (#33673690)

HTML doesn't actually require you to close a lot of those tags or quote all of those attributes, it's not xhtml.

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