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What's wrong with having a globally shareable codepen? They run absolutely everywhere, can be updated and versioned, and executed right on the web page? I am no

• autoexec 5y ago
  How is CodePen any more "globally shareable" than a website hosted on tdarb.org? HTML and CSS run a lot closer to "absolutely everywhere" than CodePen does since javascript is an additional (and in this case wholly unnecessary) requirement. "Zero JavaScript needed" isn't just my personal preference, it's explicitly stated as being desirable by the author. I fully expect to be That One Weird Guy who doesn't like running random code on his system from untrusted remote sources, but here the author states _himself_ that not needing javascript is preferable, so it's just a very weird choice that he decided to have the only live example be in the form a link to a third party site that requires javascript, especially after he went through the trouble of writing up a simple demo on his website but only as source when he could have also used that same code to provide a live demo of the thing being discussed. If I'm going to write a whole webpage about something, it just seems natural to display the thing being discussed on that same page when possible. I'm not even really complaining exactly, I'm just confused as to how someone managed to line up all of those dots, but never take that last step to connect them.