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If only there were a hypertext pre-processor...

• vaylian 2y ago
  You are missing the point. Repeated document fragments have been a pattern since the very beginning of HTML. This is a missing feature. Hypertext pre-processors are just a workaround.
  • lelanthran 2y ago
    > . Repeated document fragments have been a pattern since the very beginning of HTML. This is a missing feature. With webcomponents, it's now trivial to do client-side includes. It's not really a missing feature anymore. See this post here (which, for some reason is being downvoted): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847759
    • vaylian 2y ago
      I like web components. But they require JavaScript. I'm thinking about something that is pure HTML.
      • lelanthran 2y ago
        > But they require JavaScript. Sure, but only for implementing your own. In practice they don't typically require the author of the page to know any Javascript. I'm using a client-side include by writing only HTML tags (with a 'remote-src' attribute). It's no different from not having to know C++ in order to write HTML which is rendered by C++ code. The implementation just doesn't matter, because the user (in this case the page/site author) never needs to examine it.
• tomrod 2y ago
  I'm not someone deep in webtech. There isn't?
  • vaylian 2y ago
    They are missing an <irony> tag
  • arcanemachiner 2y ago
    It's a PHP joke. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php
• kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
  m4 is on every POSIX system.