| > Compare this to handwriting and uploading html files, and it seems like we've gone backwards. But this isn't apple and oranges; a blog with themes and whatnot is much more sophisticated than the HTML CSS rendering defaults. IMO, a HTML page without any CSS is not that bad looking and you don't really need it. Heck, even a text file written with a little bit of care is perfectly readable.) And the information overload isn't much of a problem: most people know immediately that static site generators aren't for them. > Look at medium, and look at instagram. A slightly better publishing experience dominates. Look at all the blogs using Wordpress, and everything written on Twitter and Facebook. > And to further that note, how would you self host a photo site for mobile? Is that even possible? How would you begin? I am not entirely sure what a 'photo site for mobile' is, but I am sure that it has no equivalents from before 2006 or so which you could claim it is harder or more complicated than, and I suspect that you could get 95% of the value from a static HTML page sitting on S3 containing a bunch of <img> tags and a 'viewport' <meta> tag that you copy-pasted from a StackOverflow post you found by googling 'how to make a mobile html page'. |
There's one exception to this: an HTML page without styling has line width equal to the browser window. Narrow text columns are a dramatic increase in readability.
(And I don't even maximize my browser window... a shocking number of people do, despite the fact that they're using ultra-wide 16:9 screens.)