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I also format my blog HTML, I cant say why, but I want it to be tidy and readable.

• _mlbt 3y ago
  I think readability of HTML is something that people of a certain age just expect. I remember in the early days of the web just doing a “View Source” for interesting websites and learning a lot of really neat tricks to apply to my own websites.
  • jjgreen 3y ago
    You should definitely do that at https://www.lingscars.com/ https://www.lingscars.com/
    • filcuk 3y ago
      I can't tell if it's real or satire, but I like it (not in a visit ever again way)
      • jjgreen 3y ago
        Real, as well as being a work of art.
    • jkestner 3y ago
      Wow, the presentation belies the nicely written source (excepting obfuscated JS). It's a depixelated love letter to 90s sites.
  • alxeder 3y ago
    the next generation is using devtools, inspect element
    • _mlbt 3y ago
      Browser dev tools are incredible, but they just hit different than view source. The web of the 90s and early 2000s was just so accessible as a kid curious about how it all worked. You could cobble together a personal website on Geocities and learn by copy and pasting code you found on someone else's website that did something cool. It just promoted this really beautiful experimentation and cross pollination of ideas that is mostly lost now.
    • cantSpellSober 3y ago
      These add things that are missing (<html>, missing closing tags etc). Great for debugging but not the actual source.