1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
|
<article>
<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>
</article>
|
