Gemini Digest, Vol 23, Issue 40

[Matthew Graybosch]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, at 7:38 AM, charliebrownau wrote:

> Also Does anyone have some good guides
> to create a low bloat HTML website
> without javascript/python/dotnet/cookies

How about just writing HTML in HTML?

http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/

Apache still supports server-side includes.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/ssi.html

You can build a static website with m4 and a makefile if you really want to go nuts.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190813130112/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2393
https://web.archive.org/web/20190922140823/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5594

The language used in the following is NSFW (profanity) but that should be obvious from the URLs.

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
https://bestmotherfucking.website/

These are kinda satirical, but they show that most web development headaches and bloat are entirely self-inflicted. If you have to, you can get by with raw HTML. But your website can have little a CSS, as a treat. JavaScript, server-side logic, databases, and cookies are entirely optional if you're building a website and not a web application.

-- 
Matthew Graybosch
gemini://starbreaker.org
"The lies you tell yourself are the lies that define you."

PS: Your blog doesn't need a comments section. People should quote, link, and comment on their own blogs instead of expecting you to provide them a soapbox.

PPS: If you want to use the Jekyll static site generator for building a website, you might be interested in the jekyll-oedipus-theme gem I'm working on for my own use. Code's available at https://github.com/matthewgraybosch/jekyll-oedipus-theme, but it's still rough/incomplete.
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