Why does HTML even exist anymore? Just do it JavaScript only. The HTML base file of most websites is complete gibberish generated by programs anyway. Most websites do sloppy hacks to bypass the HTML: >Reading the storage to find if user runs a private session >Shitty boilerplate that just runs a js file on loading
Just think about it: >No real benefit of making static websites >No need for React and the like >Streamlined >Faster to write sites >Making web browsers will be much easier because HTML's syntax is shit for both parsing and writing >Can directly translate DOM calls to GTK or something else
inb4 "but i want to write simple websites" >Org-mode with a viewer in JS
>Why does JavaScript even exist anymore >when you can just write a http server in C#/C++ and serve dynamic content from that >oops forgot html is still used to build the webpage webassembly looks like a nice future here, something needs to kill scripting languages
Kayden Hughes
>go to any normal site >videos start playing, news letter popups, etc >takes more than 3 seconds to load if you have bad connection or slow machine >disable JS >all these problems disappear gee...
Ethan Cooper
>Disable js >Site doesn't load at all At least some elements of the site requires it, if not, see the inb4
James Butler
you need fancy shit to read text?
Jace Jackson
What is video
Liam Reed
Why not dart?
Anthony Garcia
How is it different?
Josiah Bennett
it's a file i can fucking load without js
Landon Price
>Why does HTML even exist anymore? Just do it JavaScript only. And loose all ways of indexing the web and msking your shit discoverable.
Parker Brown
only a small minority of sites (at least ones i use) need js. not going to expect the average site dev to be competent enough not to create js bloat. no one needs to load a shit js library to read an article
Gavin Miller
>Why does HTML even exist anymore? Because when I request a resource using a Universal Resource Identifier over a Hypertext Transfer Protocol, I expect to served a motherfucking hypertext resource, not 5.1 megabytes of non-free JavaScript (including 16 different frameworks and libraries served from 11 different hosts, each tracking the fuck out of me, a couple of exploits and a cryptocoin miner) that I'm supposed to execute so that 61 ajax requests, 39 websocket frames, and 7 bazillion CPU cycles later my browser assembles an ephemeral, unsaveable, unbookmarkable "resource" for me.
Fuck your fucking "web apps", they're the most malignant form of cancer there is.
Angel Miller
It should be HTML only. No bloat. No need to upgrade to 32GB of RAM to open two tabs. No style over substance.
Did I say no bloat?
Daniel Ramirez
op is a faggot, js was a huge mistake
this
Christopher Barnes
Sounds like a site I wouldn't want to visit.
Hudson Mitchell
so precise I'm curious what web app inspired this the unsearchability aspect, when every app is implementing their own search instead of letting it get indexed, results in massive networks of people on barren platforms you can't find anything, contents are undiscoverable. only reliable way to find something is through people, and their references to things and other people directly. "but it's a social network you're supposed to use it like that maybe like through people and connections that's just the way it is" no. all apps are shit at search. they're black holes of content, that's why there's never anything meaningful at it - they're too busy repeating same things for something to persist, not to be lost forever in time, because no one would be able to find it otherwise, even if they ask exactly
don't forget infinite scrolling aka how to make your oldest posts completely inaccessible and meaningless brought to you by js
Gavin Wood
>i like forms, the post
Wyatt Nguyen
Not sure of the best place to ask this, but got nothing from /wsr/ (Noob here)
Is there a free standalone DRAG & DROP website builder that I can just install on my computer and create simple pages, without having to associate with a specific hosting service, etc.? Just want to drag some pages together and save them to my hard drive, then decide later where I want to host them.
Camden Perry
If you want to design a desktop application, then design a desktop application.
Don't bastardize HTML and CSS just because you're incapable of learning anything else.
JavaScript is cancer. Your """idea""" (brain fart) is cancer.
Your painful inability to design an application that isn't pants on head retarded isn't a reason to get rid of the only thing stopping retards from trying to reimplement raster graphics GUI frameworks on top of JavaScript.
Thomas Rodriguez
It's just me or someone else wants to go back to no js age? From time to time I do write some small website or support existing ones and I always try to avoid excessive js cancer.
Jackson Smith
Go back to your rusted tranny infested place
Christopher Adams
Javascript is a beautiful language when you understand it. It's like having a tsundere waifu.
Ryder Butler
>webassembly looks like a nice future here, something needs to kill scripting languages Try compiling C++ with emscripten to either JS or WebAssembly
Carson Fisher
>I'm a gamer and I know about computers
Elijah Gonzalez
>>No real benefit of making static websites Dropped already after the first point. If you can't conceive websites that put function over form, that explains why you're such a faggot.