Just Use HTML

Bloated Web

The web is so bloated that the web engine now weights more than the entire operating system. Most sites need to build an operating system on top of the server (docker) just to run some javascript. Web devs only know how to add more and more bloat to "solve problems", but it only overcomplicates stuff. Just see how html alone is already such a bloatware in this page.

Formatting

Want to deliver content? Basic formatting is all there, Bold, italics, highlighted, underline, strike through, superscript, subscript. What else is needed? What about quote?

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

—— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Styling

The screen is too wide for you to read? Add this.

<body style="max-width:800px;padding:16px">

Want dark theme? This bloatware got your back, you don't even need to pick colours. Add this.

<meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark">

Lists

Thoughts on Web Dev

Steps of Browsing Modern Web

  1. Fetch html, css and javascript from a random domain you have no idea whether you can trust.
  2. Run the javascript locally in your browser sandbox you have no idea if it is doing the sandbox job right.
  3. Click the only button in the pop-up occupying four fifth of the screen that you have no idea what you are agreeing to.
  4. Figure out you have no idea what the AI slop is talking about and leave.
  5. Bounce back to step 1.

Abbreviations

HTML
HyperText Markup Language
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
JS
Just Stupid

Table

You can literally create a table with cells of different sizes and create a tetris game.

Tetris
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                     
                                                     
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                     
                                   
                             
                       

Interactivity

Got some questions for the viewer? Again, this web engine bloat is ready for it. No javascript is required.

What is one plus one?

Wait, let me use CSS to calculate.

one-plus-one: calc(1px + 1px);

It seems there are 2 pixels, so it's 2!


Want popover instead? You don't need rocket science, it's just pure html.

Popover without using javascript, see how stupidly bloated the web engine is, who even asked for this function?

Forms are not included, because who cares.