From 1d133fcf802dfc36b6dfdeb336b4cb41f4ca5bae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nathansmith Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 07:26:03 -0600 Subject: Finished up message to web devs --- org/blog/articles/message-to-indie-web-devs.xml | 44 ---------- org/blog/articles/message-to-web-devs.xml | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 org/blog/articles/message-to-indie-web-devs.xml create mode 100644 org/blog/articles/message-to-web-devs.xml (limited to 'org/blog/articles') diff --git a/org/blog/articles/message-to-indie-web-devs.xml b/org/blog/articles/message-to-indie-web-devs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 0cb3610..0000000 --- a/org/blog/articles/message-to-indie-web-devs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ -
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- I am writing this to go over both the good things and bad things I often - come across on small websites, the kind often made by just some random - person in a basement. The funny part about it is all the bad things I will - go over are not limited to indie websites but are instead echos of the - mainstream web that have sadly been leaking into everything else. A lot of - what I have to say are things discovered through umatrix. Often times we - only see the outside of a website but when using a good content blocker - like umatrix, noscript, ublock advanced mode... the inner workings of a - website is brought into the light. What I often find isnt pretty. Sometimes - a website is themed to look old school but under the hood its just a bunch - of modern javascript bullshit and a hell ton of frames. Other times more - modern looking websites have little to no javascript and instead use - tastefull first party css to get that look. -

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Please dont hot link

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- From what I have seen neocities users love to abusive hot linking all the way - to the deepest depths of hell. Every single button, blinky, gif, meme... on - their frontpage is hot linked. Its perfectly ok to make your viewers suffer - with too much of that shit. I do the same. But please download all the - images and gifs into your image folder instead of hot linking - them. Here is why: -

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Please limit your use of javascript

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- Its best to not use javascript at all. Though if you are addicted to - the drug javascript and cant help yourself at least try to limit your use - of it. That means all static content needs to be accessible without - javascript. No using javascript for fancy drop downs, no using - javascript to handle your layout, no using javascript just to get text and - images into the screen, no using javascript for basic animations... -

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+ I am writing this to go over all the shit web devs do. Fuck them. A lot of + what I have to say are things discovered through umatrix. Often times we + only see the outside of a website but when using a good content blocker + like umatrix, noscript, ublock advanced mode... the inner workings of a + website is brought into the light. What I often find isnt pretty. Sometimes + a website is themed to look old school but under the hood its just a bunch + of modern javascript bullshit and a hell ton of frames. Other times more + modern looking websites have little to no javascript and instead use + tastefull first party css to get that look. +

+ +

Please dont hot link

+

+ From what I have seen neocities users love to abusive hot linking all the way + to the deepest depths of hell. Every single button, blinky, gif, meme... on + their frontpage is hot linked. Its perfectly ok to make your viewers suffer + with too much of that shit. I do the same. But please download all the + images and gifs into your image folder instead of hot linking + them. Here is why: +

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+ Indeed this doesnt only apply to images and gifs though images and gifs are + the thing hot linking is most abusived for. Another one I should point out + is the google font api bullshit. Dont use that shit. +

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Please limit your use of javascript

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+ Its best is to not use javascript at all. Though if you are addicted + to + the drug javascript and cant help yourself at least try to limit your use + of it. That means all static content needs to be accessible without + javascript. No using javascript for fancy drop downs, no using + javascript to handle your layout, no using javascript just to get text and + images onto the screen, no using javascript for basic animations... this is + what html and css is for mother fuckers! Javascript is easily one of the + worst things humans ever created. Javascript programmers kept asking what + they can use javascript for but never stopped to think should they use + javascript. To top things off every new javscript feature they add comes + with a hell ton of fingerprinting baked deep into it. Most of the things + you fuckers use javascript for can be replaced with either css or + backend. Try out a public access unix system, a vps... if you wanta try + making dynamic websites without the evils of javascript. For making your + website feel fancy css got you covered. Check out css zen garden. See how + it looks fancy without javascript? css is way more powerful than many of + you realize. No need to program your website like its a desktop app. The + best part of css is you can both use modern features and not fuck over + people using older browsers! +

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Fuck frames

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+ Frames are stupid dont use them. Just link youtube videos instead of frame + them for fucks shake. +

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Graceful degrading

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+ Please check out any browser. You arent going to test your site on every + single browser and make it look the same on every single one. Instead make + your site degrade nicely. If css, images, html features... break the + important stuff will still work. If you own a website pull it up with + umatrix installed and start blocking things. Does it still work? + Websites should contain content not layout. You dont need to use + tables for layout or outdated css to make your website support old + browsers. Instead you just gotta make sure things can break without + rendering your website un-usable. +

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Not important but...

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+ I found using width on images to scale them down doesnt work in some old + browsers like dillo. To fix this I just scale all my images to whatever + size I need in gimp first. A added plus is not having to load a massive + image just for a tiny icon (like someone with as many images as my site + would ever care lol) and you can decide how you want your images scaled to. +

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Shut your piehole

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+ I can already smell the angry sweaty tears of modern web devs. Screaming + about how everyone should just install chrome to get all the latest + features bloat and spyware instead of telling web devs to slow down + progress clownery just to support old browsers. Here is what I have + to say about that... +

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  1. I already said you can use modern css.
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  2. Websites are nearly network accessible documents. They shouldnt + replace desktop apps, run as a program on your computer... At most a + website should act as a interface to make requests to a server. That can be + done quite easily without javascript.
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  3. Desktop and server OS's is where the progress happens. Thats where + powerful software is programmed and in real languages to.
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+ Javascript programmers are now making desktop apps in javascript and + writing their backends in javascript you say?! Humanity is fucked. +

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