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This webpage has no CSS and no JavaScript, just a `<head>` with `<title>`, an `<h1>` for the heading, and a number of `<p>`s for the text. It's styled according
by nitsky 6y ago
This webpage has no CSS and no JavaScript, just a `<head>` with `<title>`, an `<h1>` for the heading, and a number of `<p>`s for the text. It's styled according to my browser's settings for font, size, etc. How refreshing!
- twic 6y agoIt is quite elegant. If the browser's default style was a little better, it could be even more elegant - not a full window width, for example. Could browsers make such improvements to their default style? Or are assumptions about the default baked into sites in such a way that changes would break them? Could browsers detect those assumptions and provide an appropriate default accordingly?
- ojr 6y agoit looks unprofessional, it is hard for me to take technical advice on the internet from someone running an unprofessional looking site. There is another blog post written by the author that docker containers are harmful that I strongly disagree with but not totally unexpected given the design choices of the site.
- oftenwrong 6y agoTheir site doesn't provide any opinion styling. Blame your client.
- choeger 6y agoWhy do you even bother responding to someone who uses such unprofessional software?
- hactually 6y agoI wondered if the GP post was from a frontend guy who had a different definition of "professional". Clicking through their profile to their business/project website was a loading screen for 5+ seconds. I never got a true "professional" impression as I closed the window before it finished.
- ojr 6y agothe outpouring praise of no CSS and no javascript websites in 2021 is tiring and not reflective of what most internet users outside of the hackernews bubble want in my opinion. Your intuition was correct, I am a Senior Frontend Engineer in California.
- yoz-y 6y agoI’m so glad that reader mode exists to make it at all readable on mobile. That said, such design is perfect for precisely this kind of customisability.
- hansvm 6y agoIt's perfectly readable on my mobile devices. Do you mind if I ask what it's lacking on yours?
- pdimitar 6y agoFont is too small.
- yoz-y 6y agoFont is very small, I need to blow it to 300% to be able to read it without squinting. Black on white is also quite blinding and very uncomfortable when scrolling. Edit: I thing thought that Apple is to blame here by setting the defaults to ridiculous values.
- cratermoon 6y agoIf the author's "system" is as minimal as that web page, I can see how the advice about being able to run the entire thing would make sense.