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Meta: I love these 90s-2000s website aesthetic. Simple HTML, less CSS, extremely good readability, very little telemetry and data collection (in general). I wis

by neya 1y ago

Meta: I love these 90s-2000s website aesthetic. Simple HTML, less CSS, extremely good readability, very little telemetry and data collection (in general). I wish we could go back to that era. It felt like every website was a beautiful discovery journey than just the same old bland minimalist, flat design bs every site has today with "aCcEpT cOokIeS" banners with dark patterns throughout. /endrant

sublinear 1y ago
Haha this page uses google adsense and the CSS is so bad that the page source has apologies in the comments. I wouldn't doubt if they didn't add the GDPR banner simply because nobody cares. This site would otherwise be fine and not lose any charm if it just had a media query to switch to a single column layout and larger font size for screens below a certain px width (768px usually for mobile). I don't get why it's not implemented. I didn't really have to do much in my user styles except remove the float in the "barBod" class and set the width to 100% on the table elements. Anyway the obligatory related guideline: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
nextzck 1y ago
The iOS reader view is spectacular. Easy to read source code makes for a better experience for both humans and machines :)
- sublinear 1y ago
  The reader view is broken. Despite my other comment this is really bad web design. So bad that I couldn't share this article with normal people who won't put up with this. I really wanted to since the story is so interesting.
UncleSlacky 1y ago
Relevant: https://justfuckingusehtml.com/ https://justfuckingusehtml.com/
- tim333 1y ago
  That site kind of defeats its objective by looking ugly and making it clear why people don't make sites like that. The https://offbeatoregon.com/ https://offbeatoregon.com/ one looks ok though if a bit busy maybe.
jibal 1y ago
The site actively discourages readers by scrolling text in a semi-transparent window over an image. It's an awful aesthetic.
- neya 1y ago
  It is not an iframe. It is just a background image set to the body tag. This is their actual CSS code for body: body { font: 100%/1.3 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #666; background-image: url("https://offbeatoregon.com/assets-2010/1012b_gorge-highway-crown-point/crown-point-1800px.jpg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center top; background-attachment: fixed; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #222; } I can understand it may not be everyone's cup of tea, though.

by neya 1y ago

sublinear 1y ago

Haha this page uses google adsense and the CSS is so bad that the page source has apologies in the comments. I wouldn't doubt if they didn't add the GDPR banner simply because nobody cares. This site would otherwise be fine and not lose any charm if it just had a media query to switch to a single column layout and larger font size for screens below a certain px width (768px usually for mobile). I don't get why it's not implemented. I didn't really have to do much in my user styles except remove the float in the "barBod" class and set the width to 100% on the table elements. Anyway the obligatory related guideline: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

nextzck 1y ago

The iOS reader view is spectacular. Easy to read source code makes for a better experience for both humans and machines :)

sublinear 1y ago
The reader view is broken. Despite my other comment this is really bad web design. So bad that I couldn't share this article with normal people who won't put up with this. I really wanted to since the story is so interesting.

UncleSlacky 1y ago

Relevant: https://justfuckingusehtml.com/ https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

tim333 1y ago
That site kind of defeats its objective by looking ugly and making it clear why people don't make sites like that. The https://offbeatoregon.com/ https://offbeatoregon.com/ one looks ok though if a bit busy maybe.

jibal 1y ago

The site actively discourages readers by scrolling text in a semi-transparent window over an image. It's an awful aesthetic.

neya 1y ago
It is not an iframe. It is just a background image set to the body tag. This is their actual CSS code for body: body { font: 100%/1.3 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #666; background-image: url("https://offbeatoregon.com/assets-2010/1012b_gorge-highway-crown-point/crown-point-1800px.jpg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center top; background-attachment: fixed; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #222; } I can understand it may not be everyone's cup of tea, though.