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From: nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 07:26:03 -0600
Subject: Finished up message to web devs

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+    <li><a href="#message-to-web-devs">Message to web devs</a></li>
     <li><a href="#false-redpill">False redpill</a></li>
     <li><a href="#second_place">Second place</a></li>
     <li><a href="#case_against_identity">Case against identity</a></li>
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 <hr />
+<div class="container">
+  <div class="article-header">
+    <h2 id="message-to-web-devs">Message to web devs</h2>--- Wed, 28 May 2025 13:20:56 GMT
+  </div>
+
+  <p>
+    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.
+  </p>
+
+  <h3>Please dont hot link</h3>
+  <p>
+    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 <b>please download all the
+    images and gifs into your image folder instead of hot linking
+    them</b>. Here is why:
+  </p>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Hot linking puts strain on the sites you link to.</li>
+    <li>Hot linking makes your site handle link rot poorly.</li>
+    <li>Hot linking annoys the fuck out of people using any type of addon or
+    browser feature that disables third party images. We do it to stop tracking
+    pixels and things of that nature.</li>
+  </ul>
+  <p>
+    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.
+  </p>
+
+  <h3>Please limit your use of javascript</h3>
+  <p>
+    <b>Its best is to not use javascript at all.</b> Though if you are addicted
+    to
+    the drug javascript and cant help yourself at least try to limit your use
+    of it. That means <b>all static content needs to be accessible without
+    javascript</b>. 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 <a
+    href="https://csszengarden.com" target="_blank">css zen garden</a>. 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!
+  </p>
+
+  <h3>Fuck frames</h3>
+  <p>
+    Frames are stupid dont use them. Just link youtube videos instead of frame
+    them for fucks shake.
+  </p>
+
+  <h3>Graceful degrading</h3>
+  <p>
+    Please check out <a href="https://anybrowser.org/campaign/"
+    target="_blank">any browser</a>. 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?
+    <b>Websites should contain content not layout.</b> 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.
+  </p>
+
+  <h3>Not important but...</h3>
+  <p>
+    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.
+  </p>
+
+  <h3>Shut your piehole</h3>
+  <p>
+    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
+    <s>features</s> bloat and spyware instead of telling web devs to slow down
+    <s>progress</s> clownery just to support old browsers. Here is what I have
+    to say about that...
+  </p>
+  <ol>
+    <li>I already said you can use modern css.</li>
+    <li><b>Websites are nearly network accessible documents.</b> 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.</li>
+    <li>Desktop and server OS's is where the progress happens. Thats where
+    powerful software is programmed and in real languages to.</li>
+  </ol>
+  <p>
+    Javascript programmers are now making desktop apps in javascript and
+    writing their backends in javascript you say?! Humanity is fucked.
+  </p>
+
+</div>
+<br />
+<hr />
 <div class="container">
   <div class="article-header">
     <h2 id="false-redpill">False redpill</h2>--- Mon, 26 May 2025 00:47:57 GMT
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