No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites
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Oh neat! I'm working on a forum that doesn't use any javascript
phpBBB??
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WORDS???? The cheek of it!
Thoughts in a contiguous sequence??!!? What utter bloat! Why even have a past or future when a pure consciousness need only experience the horizon of an infinite present.
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Just out of curiosity what percentage of people here are using Voyager as their Lemmy client?
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Voyager wouldn’t work without JavaScript… shhh don’t tell anyone
:::Ththat's different.. you take it back!!
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What we need is a subset of modern web, without any bloat, especially JS frameworks.
A lot of websites can be static HTML + CSS.
Maybe a little JS, as a treat?
It's fun for hiding little easter eggs.
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We have that, it’s called Gemini and is accessible with Lagrange
And Offpunk.
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Thoughts in a contiguous sequence??!!? What utter bloat! Why even have a past or future when a pure consciousness need only experience the horizon of an infinite present.
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Ththat's different.. you take it back!!
wrote last edited by [email protected]There are so many people here that hate cloud based services. And the same people also hate JavaScript. Like you realize if your app was just static JavaScript files, you could literally just download the entire site to your computer and run it? Why is JavaScript the enemy?
JavaScript isn’t the enemy. The enshitification of technology is the enemy.
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The revived No JS Club celebrates websites that don't use Javascript, the powerful but sometimes overused code that's been bloating the web and crashing tabs since 1995. The No CSS Club goes a step further and forbids even a scrap of styling beyond the browser defaults. And there is even the No HTML Club, where you're not even allowed to use HTML. Plain text websites!
The modern web is the pure incarnation of evil. When Satan has a 1v1 with his manager, he confers with the modern web. If Satan is Sauron, then the modern web is Melkor [1]. Every horror that you can imagine is because of the modern web. Modern web is not an existential risk (X-risk), but is an astronomic suffering risk (S-risk) [2]. It is the duty of each and every man, woman, and child to revolt against it. If you're not working on returning civilization to ooga-booga, you're a bad person.
A compromise with the clubs is called for. A hypertext brutalism that uses the raw materials of the web to functional, honest ends while allowing web technologies to support clarity, legibility and accessibility. Compare this notion to the web brutalism of recent times, which started off in similar vein but soon became a self-subverting aesthetic: sites using 2.4MB frameworks to add text-shadow: 40px 40px 0px hotpink to 400kb Helvetica webfonts that were already on your computer.
I also like the idea of implementing "hypotext" as an inversion of hypertext. This would somehow avoid the failure modes of extending the structure of text by failing in other ways that are more fun. But I'm in two minds about whether that would be just a toy (e.g. references banished to metadata, i.e. footnotes are the hypertext) or something more conceptual that uses references to collapse the structure of text rather than extend it (e.g. links are includes and going near them spaghettifies your brain). The term is already in use in a structuralist sense, which is to say there are 2 million words of French I have to read first if I want to get away with any of this.
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Boing Boing Original Article.counterpoint: https://bestestmotherfucking.website/
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That's almost worse. I don't want to install 5000 NPM packages to generate 2 basic-ass pages.
Use Zola or Hugo then
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counterpoint: https://bestestmotherfucking.website/
That is made by someone who had a Geocities website, or went 1000% in on MySpace back in the day.
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The revived No JS Club celebrates websites that don't use Javascript, the powerful but sometimes overused code that's been bloating the web and crashing tabs since 1995. The No CSS Club goes a step further and forbids even a scrap of styling beyond the browser defaults. And there is even the No HTML Club, where you're not even allowed to use HTML. Plain text websites!
The modern web is the pure incarnation of evil. When Satan has a 1v1 with his manager, he confers with the modern web. If Satan is Sauron, then the modern web is Melkor [1]. Every horror that you can imagine is because of the modern web. Modern web is not an existential risk (X-risk), but is an astronomic suffering risk (S-risk) [2]. It is the duty of each and every man, woman, and child to revolt against it. If you're not working on returning civilization to ooga-booga, you're a bad person.
A compromise with the clubs is called for. A hypertext brutalism that uses the raw materials of the web to functional, honest ends while allowing web technologies to support clarity, legibility and accessibility. Compare this notion to the web brutalism of recent times, which started off in similar vein but soon became a self-subverting aesthetic: sites using 2.4MB frameworks to add text-shadow: 40px 40px 0px hotpink to 400kb Helvetica webfonts that were already on your computer.
I also like the idea of implementing "hypotext" as an inversion of hypertext. This would somehow avoid the failure modes of extending the structure of text by failing in other ways that are more fun. But I'm in two minds about whether that would be just a toy (e.g. references banished to metadata, i.e. footnotes are the hypertext) or something more conceptual that uses references to collapse the structure of text rather than extend it (e.g. links are includes and going near them spaghettifies your brain). The term is already in use in a structuralist sense, which is to say there are 2 million words of French I have to read first if I want to get away with any of this.
Republished Under Creative Commons Terms.
Boing Boing Original Article.Just to mention it:
gopher://sdf.org
There is no better place for plain and real content
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I host my own website, and I decided to rewrite the JS portions in React, in order to learn the framework. Boy was it a learning experience: To do the same thing required 2-4 times the amount of code—and that’s just in the scripts, let alone the all the bloat from the packages and the bundler.
I know this is a bit more radical than cutting out frameworks, but working with the JS ecosystem was such a pain, largely because there’s you need to piece together different software to make a stack work, which may or may not go together well. And since your stack is likely unique, good luck getting help on your problems. It made me miss Rust (albeit most languages do)—in Rust, you have Cargo for everything, and it’s beautiful. Rust has its own difficulties, but they actually feel surmountable compared to the dependency hell of JS.
React is probably overkill for most simple sites. You could still use JavaScript for some cool stuff without needing all the libraries and frameworks
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I'll say one thing for the No CSS philosophy - at least it eliminates light-colored text on a light-colored background using the thinnest possible font, which is probably the stupidest stylistic trend since the web began.
I remember the wonderful feeling when Discord had a redesign in like 2017 or 2018 where they undid that awful gray-on-white design trend and made the text actually have contrast. These days the annoying trendy design thing is articles/blogs with extremely narrow width.
no i do not want to read paragraphs that are this wide. this is making it way more annoying to read. please stop doing this.at least Firefox has Reader Mode.
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That is just stupid. How about a slighly more complex markdown.
What I really want is a P2P archive of all the relevant news articles of the last decades in markdown like in firefox "reader view". And some super advanced LLM powered text compression so you can easily store a copy of 20% of them on your PC to share P2P.
Much of the information on the internet could vanish within months if we face some global economic crisis.
And some super advanced LLM powered text compression so you can easily store a copy of 20% of them on your PC to share P2P.
Nothing can be that advanced and zstd is good enough.
The idea is cool. With pure p2p exchange being a fallback, and something like trackers in bittorrent being the main center to yield nodes per space (suppose, there's more than one such archive you'd want to replicate) and per partition (if it's too big, then maybe it would make sense, but then some of what I wrote further should be reconsidered).
The problem of torrents and other stuff is that people only store what's interesting to them.
If you have to store one humongous archive, and be able to efficiently search it, and avoid losing pieces - then, I think, you need partitioned roughly equal distribution of it over nodes.
The space of keys (suppose it's hashes of blocks of the whole) is partitioned by prefix so that a node would store equal amount of blocks of every prefix. And first of all the values closest to the node's identifier (a bit like in Kademlia) should be stored of those under that space. OK, I'm thinking the first sentence of this paragraph might even be unneeded.
The data itself should probably be in some supercool format where you don't need to have it all to decompress only the small part you need, just the beginning with the dictionary and some interval.
There should also be, as a separate functionality of this system, search by keywords inside intervals, so that search would yield intervals where a certain keyword is encountered. With nodes indexing continuous intervals they can decompress and responding to search requests by those keywords. Ideally a single block should be possible to decompress having the dictionary. I suppose I should do my reading on compression algorithms and formats.
Probably search function could also involve returning Google-like context. Depending on the space needed.
Would also need some way to reward contribution, that is, to pay a node owner for storing and serving blocks.
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What devilry is this? Written word?
Real cultures use oral history to store knowledge!Or hieroglyphs, to stay on the sane side.
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If you want to know copy and paste this link into your browser: text.only
That reminds me of lynx
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I did using Gemini (the protocol, not Google's thing) and Gopher.
Didn't know about Gemini (the protocol, not Google’s thing)
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Alright man, I didn't mean for it to hit so hard. I'm just trying to help. I assumed you were English-speaking because they are honestly the ones to most often make that kind of mistake.
Sorry if I offended you.Anyway, I edited my first comment there, before you replied last. So the correct thing is there now.
(It should be "than".)Love ya.
Nah it's fine. Just got brutally dumped so I was too sensitive
but still, thanks for apologizing
Love ya 2
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It was a mistake to leave the oceans in the first place.
Carcinization calls. Return to crab.
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phpBBB??
No, it's my own that I'm building from Scratch. It's C#/Asp.Net Razor Pages. Plain CSS on the frontend, no javascript
