Who cares about performance when you can have performance
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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I'm still the old school developer that refuses to build JavaScript only sites. I build sites html first, and add some JS here and there to add some bling. But I never make it a requirement
I remember building the first web site for our company many, many years ago. It was Friday afternoon, approaching 16:00, and I was eying my jacket hanging next to the office door, when the owner and CEO came in and told me that he had come to the conclusion that we need a web site.
When I left the office at about 22:00, we had one. The CEO and I had sat down together while I set up an apache on a linux box on the desk across from me, and he actually learned a bit of HTML while following me "designing" a web page with a text editor and painting tool. It had everything we needed back then.
Even today, I have the habit of cleaning up HTML perpetrated by horrible tools, most often Word or Calibre.
You might be interested in htmx. While not fully as simple as html it tries to avoid the issues that come with large complex structures that SPA style websites often utilize
It's obviously not got everything, but Gemini is a protocol that really harks back to web 1.0, and there's a real fun niche going on there. Worth a check out:
Man, I feel the same.
Can you share some examples of issues you're having?
I never claimed to have issues? I'm just saying the internet today is just filled with so much bloat and ad trackers. I do like some changes over time, but the era of just raw html and organized websites, and a lack of clickbait was nice.
A couple of helpful tips to get back that lightning fast feeling...
- Disable Javascript. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javascript/
- If you're using a phone, try PureBrowser
It's incredible how fast things load when you use one of those options! Although I appreciate a few websites simply refuse to work