[_lffv]

Hell, I still write the HTML and push it to Github where Github Pages and Cloudflare put it up on the Web for me. I've never seen any reason to use Markup when I can just Mark my text Up in HTML pretty simply. If you write a site correctly (a site, not a webapp) it'll render in anything from the original Netscape to the Wii Browser (tested working with my site), Internet Explorer 8 (working), Links2 (working), and the latest Chrome.

A site like YouTube doesn't need to work with old stuff like Netscape or IE but if your site primarily focuses on text there's next to no reason there should be Javascript on your site. Sites like danluu's[0] and Michael Norman Williams'[1] may not look the best but they just work.

My website: https://www.instantfloppy.net/ (though admittedly I don't spend as much time on it as I should)

[0]: https://danluu.com/

[1]: http://michaelnormanwilliams.com/

[justanotherc]

I have no idea what your site is about. Its just random links with no explanation about what they are or for.

[RandomGuyDTB]

> (though admittedly I don't spend as much time on it as I should)

It's pretty much just a howto and link repository for myself and my friends right now. Still mostly a work in progress. Consider it as an example for look rather than for function.

[somecallitblues]

I’m sorry to say this but your site may only be appealing to you. Even though it will render on Commodore 64.

[RandomGuyDTB]

The intent is for users to style it themselves.. or it was, until browsers stopped having that functionality.

[krapp]

Browsers never stopped having that functionality. It's still entirely possible to load custom user styles into a webpage.

[RandomGuyDTB]

If I recall, Netscape or one of the other early browsers used to have an option to change the default font/color of text and the background in its settings. Nowadays you have to use an extension to do so.

[RandomGuyDTB]

I finally found an option in Firefox to change things around, but it still only changes the font and not actual foreground/background colors.

[movedx]

> Hell, I still write the HTML and push it to Github where Github Pages and Cloudflare put it up on the Web for me. I've never seen any reason to use Markup when I can just Mark my text Up in HTML pretty simply.

This sounds like you're making everything more difficult for yourself with little to no gain whatsoever.

With Markup or Markdown, you're still writing that HTML, but you're writing it once and then using automation and data structures to abstract it away. After that's implemented, and it's already been done for you (Hugo, MkDocs, ...), you're just writing the actual content and using simple syntax to format it. Everything else is then handled for you.

I wrote this recently: https://www.thecloud.coach/terraform/understanding-state/

If I had to write that from first principles, as you're doing above, I simply wouldn't have.