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by uncledave 1905 days ago
Yes definitely.

I was surprised recently as I had to fill in a massive form based site for UK NHS mental health survey stuff. The site appeared as a flat background old style early 2000’s sort of thing with bits of comic sans in it. I nearly died when I first saw it expecting a shit show.

But it turned out to be responsive and fast. It worked perfectly from end to end and had little to no JavaScript. It was by far the best thing I’ve used for years. There were over 100 page transitions in total. It wasn’t an SPA but a classic web site with little or no intelligence. Seemed to be backed by python.

I want this back.

2 comments

> The site appeared as a flat background old style early 2000’s sort of thing with bits of comic sans in it.

That's surprising - even external stuff usually has to follow the NHS's design system.

https://service-manual.nhs.uk/design-system

> early 2000’s sort of thing

Right. It probably IS an old site and they've had years to iron-out bugs.

Nope. I spoke to the woman who issued us with an account and they just had it built for them.