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[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

never doubt the elegance of good semantic HTML and a few lines of classless CSS

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and I find it kind of funny, and I find it kind of sad, that the sane standards of web development are now considered elegance

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So that's where I heard it! Thank you very much!

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

It was the best I ever had...

[–] lung@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After a few years of corporate framework stacks, I'm back to writing plain HTML/JS/CSS, and wow, what a joyful float down a river that is

Even with no transpiler or minification, bespoke HTML is extremely efficient and pleasant to use. I write little script tags with query selectors where I need them, they get efficiently loaded on the pages that use them

I use Hugo to do imports / classic server side rendering, and it's stupid fast and efficient. I can compile 500 pages in 0.5s on a dualcore machine with 4gb of ram. Resources (like images) can be processed, converted into multiple file types and resolutions and then automatically cached. It feels so zen

It works for tv news, it should work for my MySpace page.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

<frameset> is really gonna blow your mind

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

send me back

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

This advise can also apply to the "Worse is Better" philosophy, no?