-It's no secret that I type every character of my website, by hand, without any form of generation. -I brag about it a lot. It's my justification for calling other, ostensibly better websites garbage. -It also doubles as a bit of a running gag. The intention, partially, is to shock people. -Also a bit to inspire them. "All you need is a browser and a text editor." And the usual contrarianism. -Many of these qualities are considered bad and for good reasons - it's just needless. We've progressed past raw HTML-writing. -Modern computers can handle modern websites. And these are all not only good reasons but true. -
--However keep in mind that sometimes progress isn't good. (I do not mean social progress, which I support in most forms.) -Where has progress in the web taken us? Commercial advertisements in cyber-space? Web browsers running proprietary third party code? -Digitally restricted media being limited to playback within browsers? While yes, these are technological advancements, they're a -progression of Capitalism, not of humanity. They are a sign of the conquest of the web by the hands of the corporate world. Yuck. -
--So I don't write bare HTML to be contrary to other "web developers", though contrarianism is a welcome part of it. -I write bare HTML to encourage the usage of web browsers that prioritize privacy and tell anyone looking to make a buck through the web to sod off. -
-Anyway, with the philosophical side out of the way, here's a list in arbitrary order of things I think make good HTML
+Here's a list in arbitrary order of things I think make good HTML