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Sure, when your site looks like it's from 1995. Client apps today have hundreds of custom features running simultaneously.
by proc0 3y ago
Sure, when your site looks like it's from 1995. Client apps today have hundreds of custom features running simultaneously.
- superkuh 3y agoOf course you wouldn't use this if you're being paid to make an application for profit. You use less good technologies that make it easier to collaborate with other employees, or more importantly: whatever buzzword tech of the year gets you hired. But for personal sites where you get to choose? HTML. The commercial app you write will last a few years before breaking. But the HTML site will last forever.
- ben_w 3y ago> Sure, when your site looks like it's from 1995 Tail end of 96 at least, even the link uses CSS. In principal you can also write JS manually within HTML. > Client apps today have hundreds of custom features running simultaneously. How many of those features are adverts and user-unwanted tracking that you need a GDPR compliance team for?
- MathMonkeyMan 3y agoA blog is a blog. There's always CSS and the "class" attribute to make things look however you want. Reading text and images doesn't require interactivity or scripting.
- akie 3y agoThe site could benefit enormously from these 10 lines of CSS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972004 It makes the site look modern instantaneously.
- al_borland 3y agoMost sites don’t need 98% of the trash running on the site. If the goal of a site is to display information, all the modals, advanced analytics, parallax effects, video ads, etc distract from main goal, rather than enhance it.