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Comment by dbdr

1 day ago

Amazing to see a webpage "Updated Dec 1998" still up, running and displaying correctly.

Without fancy JS or CSS, sites can last decades easily

  • With JS and CSS sites can last decades easily.

    • Agreed, it's not those, it's the fact that we went from JS being a little sprinkling of dynamism on a document to an entire build process with massive numbers of dependencies and browser shims. The web feels like a mistake as a platform...

    • I said "fancy", meaning frameworks or custom things. With vanilla js everything is durable