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I wish more websites looked like this. And weighed 5kb of HTML.

• tcfunk 8y ago
  Preferably with a bit less green.
  • robbrit 8y ago
    It's a cheap method for branding. No designer needed :)
  • teachrdan 8y ago
    Well, that is on-brand for the Emerald programming language.
• dangerbird2 8y ago
  Blue text on dark green background is not very colorblind friendly. Even if you don't use fancy javascript or css, a strong colorscheme with proper contrast does wonders.
  • TylerE 8y ago
    Blue on green isn't anything except headache-friendly.
• overcast 8y ago
  Good god, I hope not. Can we just standardize with black on white?
  • contravariant 8y ago
    Or rather black on off-white with generous margins.
    • igouy 8y ago
      A little colour breaks the monotony. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/ https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
• theyinwhy 8y ago
  The impression the page design had on me was highly different. Does the developer really want me to use the language? If so, why not invest only a bit amount of time in thinking about it's presentation?
  • megaman22 8y ago
    This is pretty clearly an archival site. The links under "Current (more-or-less) Emerald information" point to a university site updated in 1998 and a mothballed Sourceforge repo with no activity since 2005.
• jhomedall 8y ago
  With even a tiny bit of CSS (which can be inlined in the head tag if you don't want an extra fetch), you end up with this: https://jmn.link/css-example.jpg https://jmn.link/css-example.jpg . That's 152 bytes of non-minified CSS to accomplish that. Going further, if you drop the table-based layout, then you can get something equally as small, that doesn't break horribly on mobile. Of course, none of this was really an option when this page was created (look at the age of all the links in it).
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